The two faces of France

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In the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel's existence was threatened, France's president Charles de Gaulle took a pro-Arab direction and instituted a weapons embargo on the Middle East. In his press conference on November 27 of that year he included a much publicized anti-Semitic statement, calling the Jews "an elitist and domineering people."

This is often considered the beginning of post-Holocaust anti-Semitism in the democratic mainstream of Europe.

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It took Chirac until November 2003, however, when a Jewish school in Gagny was firebombed, to come down strongly against anti-Semitism. A few months earlier he had told a delegation of the Simon Wiesenthal Center that there was no anti-Semitism in France. On the way to their next meeting some delegates who had their heads covered were insulted by anti-Semitic remarks on the streets.

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A few weeks later Chirac and France went out of their way to pay homage to Yasser Arafat before and after his death. They thus honored the person who had given international terrorism against civilians probably the largest innovative push in the past decades.

It recalled Chirac's insulting 1996 visit to Israel, after which he kowtowed to Arafat.

There are no indications that France's fireman-arsonist approach is going to change. One can also expect increasing efforts by the French government to try to drive a wedge between the French Jewish community and Israel.

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Stlll more endless reasons why i love the french.

And that is why French Jews cant wait to gtf outta there.