France's Regulations Should Be Worded Exact & Correct

Here is a section of the new French regulations on goods produced in that part of the Land of Israel not yet under Israel's full sovereignty:

For products from the West Bank or the Golan Heights originating from settlements, a restriction to "product originating in the Golan Heights" or "product originating in the West Bank" is not acceptable. Although these expressions refer to the broad area or territory from which the product originates, the omission of additional geographical information to the effect that the product originates from Israeli settlements may mislead the consumer True origin of the product. In such cases it is necessary to add, in brackets, the expression "Israeli colony" or equivalent terms. Thus, expressions such as "product originating in the Golan Heights (Israeli colony)" or "products originating in the West Bank (Israeli colony)" may be used.

I was wondering: do products in that same geographical area but not produced in Jewish communities need to be registered/labeled as "hummus produced in Arab-occupied Samaria" or "olive oil originating in Arab-occupied Judea"?

The additional geographical information is that those areas, Samaria and Judaea, are the ones the United Nations used to describe the border of the Jewish and Aerab states to arise as a reult of the 1947 partition plan (which the Arabs rejected, launched a war of aggression and then had Jordan occupy and annex):

The boundary of the hill country of Samaria and Judea starts on the Jordan River at the Wadi Malih south-east of Beisan...

So, if the French want to be just and correct, let them employ the correct nomenclature and the genuine legal standing of the areas.

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"Settling" in Syria

Don't get excited. From an academic study on a period of 80 years ago:

The idea of promoting Jewish settlement in Syria and Lebanon was considered from the time of the creation of the French Mandate in these countries. The Zionist leadership saw in it the potential for enlarging the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and from the 1930s non-Zionists saw it as an outlet for persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany. This study examines these plans, their development and ultimate demise. While earlier studies have generally been limited to discussing the Zionist aspect, the present study also addresses both non-Zionist and non-Jewish factors, particularly the French mandatory authorities, and is largely based on documentation found in the Archives du Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres in Paris and Nantes. The French authorities debated the possibility of authorizing Jewish entry into Syria and Lebanon. Jewish immigration was perceived as capable of offering a solution to the deep economic crisis in which both countries found themselves. On the other hand, grave concerns were articulated that such actions would lead to Moslem rioting, spurred by fears of potential Jewish domination. Jewish hopes for local Christian support only intensified these feelings. Jewish settlement ceased to be a reality and became a symbol instead. As for the French, they were convinced that Jewish immigration would act as a Trojan horse, serving British aspirations to acquire hegemony in the entire Near East. The French made no distinction between Zionists and non-Zionists in their attitude towards the Jews. They simply believed that the future creation of a Jewish state was a fact, and therefore that additional territories in Syria and Lebanon would become a vital need for it. The French, therefore, ultimately adopted an intransigent position against Jewish immigration.

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La France and Its Jews

The observation of Michel Gurfinkiel, founder and president of the Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute in Paris:-

One month ahead of the presidential election, the French political class wanted to both draw on the emotional impact of the killings and avoid gaffes or politically incorrect statements. All presidential candidates expressed their shock and anger about the deliberate killing of Jewish children. Most attended Jewish services in Paris and Toulouse. President Sarkozy...warned against “amalgamating” the “peaceful and law abiding Muslim community” with jihadists and other radicals, or “calling for retribution.” Many other candidates, or national leaders, said the same.

Such attitudes displease French Jews. For one thing, they know that if all Muslims are not jihadists, jihadism and other extremist movements still spread among French Muslims, especially the younger, French-born, generation. Conversely, they believe that their own global image and condition have steadily deteriorated for years and that this explains at least in part the torturing and killing of Ilan Halimi in 2006 and the Toulouse massacre today.

According to Sammy Ghozlan, a former police superintendent and the head of a French antisemitism monitoring group, street violence against Jews is increasing, and is largely perpetrated by Muslim thugs. (Just one week ago, a Jewish high school student was beaten at Porte de Bagnolet in Paris, until he was rescued by horrified witnesses.) The so called BDS campaign (anti-Israel boycott), while illegal, gains ground and grows more violent. It is not uncommon for BDS activists to “occupy” stores that sell Israeli products or bookshops that sell pro-Israel literature and to dump or damage the items, a practice reminiscent of the SA, anti-Jewish boycott in the 1930s. One hears “Death to Jews” mottos frequently in Muslim-populated areas. Such cries sounded last month in Champigny, near Paris, upon the release of a comedy about Sefardi Jews, La Vérité si je mens 3.

French radio and TV indulge routinely in Israel-bashing and even, more recently, Jew-bashing programs; a laxity encouraged, French Jews surmise, by the rampant anti-Zionism of many government agencies and initiatives (like granting sovereign state status to the Palestinian Authority at UNESCO). Last but not least, Prime Minister François Fillon crossed a red line three weeks ago when he bluntly decried both hallal and kosher slaughtering as irrational “ancestral customs” and President Sarkozy failed to reassure when he advocated “voluntary tagging” for ritually slaughtered food.

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Free Speech Should Not Be Hate Speech

Despite the opinion of many of those who commented on this NYTimes report, in France, cradle of modern democracy, they know to differentiate between free and unlimited and unrestricted speech and speech which is hateful and intending to cause eventual crimes and stems from hostility which has corrupted one's moral fibre -

Court Convicts Galliano in Anti-Semitism 

John Galliano, the British fashion designer whose career imploded after a videotaped anti-Semitic rant, was found guilty and given a suspended fine of 6,000 euros on Thursday by a French tribunal in connection with two separate bar clashes in Paris with people who accused him of hate crimes.

...The tribunal issued a fine and then suspended it, Mr. Galliano, who was fired six months ago as the creative director of the fashion house Dior, had told the French court that he remembered nothing about the incidents and at the time was debilitated by job stress and addiction to Valium and alcohol. He condemned racism and anti-Semitism and apologized to the victims...the prosecutor had accused him of indulging in an ugly variety of “racism and anti-Semitism of the parking lot and the supermarket.”

Mr. Galliano’s apology and humility, expressed during his trial in a low voice...resonated with the judges, who convicted him of the hate crime but reduced his sentence...His lawyer, Aurélien Hamelle, told reporters that the court’s ruling was a strong gesture and a “wise judgment” and that he did not plan to appeal...

I'm Indignant!

Reported:

Stéphane Hesse..at 93...is the author of a best seller that has become a publishing phenomenon in France...a thin, impressionistic pamphlet called “Indignez-Vous!,” held together by two staples and released by a two-person publishing house run out of the attic of their home. It urges young people to revive the ideal of resistance to the Nazis by peacefully resisting the “international dictatorship of the financial markets” and defending the “values of modern democracy.”

"Democracy"?  "Values"?  How?

In particular Mr. Hessel protests France’s treatment of illegal immigrants, the influence on the media by the rich, cuts to the social welfare system, French educational reforms and, most strongly, Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

“When something outrages you, as Nazism did me, that is when you become a militant, strong and engaged,” he writes. “You join the movement of history, and the great current of history continues to flow only thanks to each and every one of us.”

Don't you just marvel at someone, a Resistance veteran who "was...imprisoned in concentration camps, waterboarded in Nazi torture sessions and saved from hanging by swapping identities with an inmate who had died of typhus", who is a complete idiot - or is he just a fool when Israel enters his sphere of attention?

And consider this indicator of attention-time:

The book’s short length [29 pages in French] and low price (it sells for about $4) made it a popular Christmas gift among left-leaning intellectuals, parents struggling to inject political activism into their children and just about anyone else who needed an extra stocking stuffer.

But there's more:

...the book has been branded anti-Semitic by some French intellectuals for its attack on Israel, in particular that country’s 2008 incursion into Gaza. The book describes Gaza, which Mr. Hessel visited with his wife in 2009, as “an open-sky prison for a million and a half Palestinians,” and says that “for Jews themselves to perpetuate war crimes is intolerable.”

On his Facebook page Pierre-André Taguieff, an expert in the history of French anti-Semitism, wrote: “Certainly he could have ended his life in a more dignified way, instead of inciting hatred against Israel, thus adding his voice to the worst of anti-Jews. Even old age doesn’t make someone impermeable to vanity, or kill the appetite for applause.”

Mr. Hessel denies that he is anti-Semitic or anti-Israel. “I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew,” he said. “I’ve seen what it is, I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they’ve suffered, need a country where they are at home. I shouted my joy when Israel was founded. I said, ‘At last!’ ”

When a handful of protesters branded him a racist during a speech he gave in the Paris suburb of Montreuil last week, he said that he told them: “My love for Israel is stronger than yours. But I want it to be an honest country.”

Other critics have pointed out the book’s outrage does not mention human rights offenses in places like North Korea, Myanmar, China and Iran.

Jewish?

He was born in Berlin to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother and was baptized so that he could attend school. The family immigrated to Paris when he was 7.   With her husband’s consent his mother had a longstanding affair with Henri-Pierre Roché, the writer and art dealer. The relationship became the inspiration for Mr. Roché’s first novel and later for François Truffaut’s classic French New Wave film “Jules and Jim.” The young Stéphane character was the little girl in the film.

Self-hating?

No; or maybe; but whatever, ignorance, spite and above all, left-wing thinking or what passes as intellectual thought, are at fault. Democracy he's concerned about?  In the Palestinian Authority?

He's indignant and angry?  I am moreso.


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Jew-Hatred By Muslims in France

My high school French is nearly inadequate so Elliot Green provided me with a translation of this anti-semitic Muslim perpetrated incident:

...c'est une jeune femme de confession juive qui portait plainte après avoir été agressée dans une grande surface de Toulouse. La victime affirme avoir été prise à partie par deux adolescents qui lui reprochaient d'acheter de la nourriture pendant le jeûne. La jeune femme aurait alors fait valoir qu'elle était de confession juive, ce qui n'aurait fait que redoubler la colère de ses agresseurs, lesquels, après l'avoir traitée de "sale juive", l'auraient frappée à la tête, la faisant lourdement chuter. Un vigile a assisté à la scène sans intervenir. Interrogé par les enquêteurs sur les raisons de sa passivité, l'homme a expliqué qu'il respectait le ramadan et qu'il était donc pressé de partir pour pouvoir s'alimenter, dès le coucher du soleil.

which is basically:

a woman was shopping in a supermarket in Toulouse. Two "adolescents" scolded her that she should not be buying food on Ramadan during the fast [whereas Muslims in Jerusalem do buy food during the day during Ramadan]. But it was a case of mistaken identity. Apparently they had thought that she was Muslim. The woman told them that she was Jewish. The article in Le Point goes on to say that her statement that she was Jewish "only redoubled the anger of her attackers." They called her "dirty Jewess" [sale Juive], hit her on the head, causing her to fall down. Worse yet, a supermarket guard wtinessed the attack and did nothing to help the woman. He explained that he respected Ramadan and was in a hurry to leave so that he could eat at sundown

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Up the Irish?

Whatever could Irish MP Iris Robinson be laughing about with her husband?




In the dark?

Try this and this, for starts.

But read this, too.


P.S.

France is not a nice place for nieces of politicians:

The niece of defence minister Quentin Davies stabbed her lover to death following a frenzied sex session and then told police: 'I am a monster'. Jessica Davies, 30, was covered in blood when officers found her cradling the naked body of Olivier Mugnier, 24, at her one-bedroomed Paris flat, a French court heard yesterday.

Although barely able to stand because of the amount of drugs and drink she had consumed, the former model confessed to the crime, saying: 'I did it. I can't tell you why, but I did it. I am a monster'. Holding up a knife following the November 2007 attack, Davies added: 'I wanted to cut him a bit and it went right in.'

and the Irish connection:

Davies said that before the killing she had had several pints of beer and shots of spirits at Sullivans, an Irish pub in St Germain-en-Laye, the prosperous Paris suburb where she was brought up...

Antizionism Goes Legit

An Antizionist political party has been formed:



and its running in the European Union elections:

...the newly formed anti-Zionist party headed by French comedian Dieudonné, who has been convicted on charges of anti-Semitism. On Sunday, French Justice Minister Rachida Dati said that despite an attempt by some French politicians to oust Dieudonné’s party from the elections, the group would remain in the campaign. “For the moment, we don’t have any evidence capable of preventing Dieudonné from running,” she said on the French TV network Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI.

and this

...the Anti-Zionist Party or PAS.

The news of their collaboration and electoral ambitions has caused oceans of ink to flow at all the websites, and has spurred some to call for a ban on the party. Others are opposed to such a ban since it would only help the cause of the PAS by granting it instant martyrdom. Ivan Rioufol, a journalist with Le Figaro, writing at his blog earlier this month speaks of the possibility of banning this new party from the elections:

Personally, I have always felt that a democratic debate was not improved by silencing scandalous opinions or realities. For this reason, I have always opposed the Gayssot Law that penalizes Holocaust denial. It seems to me that the best way to victimize Dieudonné and his friends, who are eager for victimization, would be to ban the public expression of their anti-Zionist obsessions. [...] You cannot smother out dangerous ideas. Rather, you fight back in public discussions and in the voting booth.

The PAS would have the remotest chance of succeeding were it not for the Muslim presence in France. The Muslim presence is now coming to the aid of those anti-Semitic elements that lie dormant waiting for their hour to come. The Muslim presence has brought together the Left and Islam and the anti-Semitic Right in a coalition fit for hell. Dieudonné and Soral, but especially Soral, hold hybrid positions on various issues, mixing socialism, tradition, nationalism, anti-EU-ism, multi-culturalism, etc... thus disseminating even more confusion, but at bottom, for these two men and their Muslim-led party, Israel (and by natural extension all Jews), are the cause of all the evil in the world. This is the "traditional" point of view held by the congenital anti-Semite.

Last March, Le Monde announced that Alain Soral had accepted Dieudonné's invitation to join him on the ballot:

Addressing him as "my dear Dieudonné", Soral, former member of the French Communist Party and one-time adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, affirmed that he heard loud and clear Dieudonné's "vibrant appeal for a union of all those who refuse to submit." And that he was in favor of "opposing Zionism and denouncing the ever more conspicuous and weighty interference by the French pro-Zionist lobby in the affairs of our country." […] Soral has added a few other points to his humorist friend's political road map: "The fight against the rise of commercial globalist totalitarianism which is what the European Union is in reality; the defense of French workers and their rights against the plan for the destruction of our industries, public services, and small businesses by globalized capitalism, hence by the European Union; the return of the State to all large economic sectors, or a well-reasoned protectionism"

French "Strong" About Antisemitism? Naw.

French Police Break Up Attack on Two Orthodox Jews

French police arrested five youths, ages 16 to 21, for attacking two young boys wearing kippot [skullcaps] in the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine Wednesday night. A 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were also beaten, as they tried to defend their two nephews against the gang.

The attackers shouted anti-Semitic insults, according to the French umbrella organization CRIF, but French police said only that there is a "strong suspicion" of anti-Semitism in the attack. The victims were treated in a local hospital for light wounds.

The CRIF communique added:-

Police detained five youths aged between 16 and 21 after the aggression which took place in Vitry-sur-seine, southeast of Paris.

After they came in defense of their two nephews hunted down by a band of 10 youths, a 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were severely beaten. According to CRIF, the aggressors have shouted anti-Semitic insults.

“When police arrived on the spot, the aggressors threatened the two teenagers and shouted anti-Semitic slogans,” CRIF said in a communiqué.

The Jewish body said it was clear that the incident "had nothing to do with conflict between rival bands."

That bit about "bands" is a reference to an earlier report of Steven Erglander of the New York Times (where else?), formerly its chief correspondent in Israel, which tried to disguise the French antisemitism:-

On Saturdays, during the Jewish Sabbath, youth gangs, including gangs of young Jews, migrate to the park of Buttes Chaumont and squabble over territory. Sometimes the insults and battles that begin there are finished later on the Rue Petit, Morad Chahrine said, who directs the J2P social and cultural center.

"It's less about anti-Semitism than fights among gangs of youths, who create alliances of one district against another," Chahrine said, noting the influence of American movies on the styles and habits of the gangs. "This idea of identity of territory starts with economic reasons. This is the youngest and poorest arrondissement in Paris, with a lot of unemployment, and that explains a lot."

Dominique Sopo, president of the group SOS-Racisme, which works against discrimination, said, "We're faced with a layer cake, a logic of territorialization."

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And next, we'll hear that Hitler was a frustrated painter whose work was savaged by Jewish art critics.

La prostituée

France confirmed Monday that it had been engaged in contacts with the leaders of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that is running Gaza, for several months to try to better understand its positions.

“These are not relations; they are contacts,” Mr. Kouchner said on Europe 1 radio.

With who does one have contacts but no relations?

La barbaque et la catin et la prostituée

Who Rioted? Who?

FARK says:

Youths of unspecified religious affiliation attack police and riot in France

That's right. If you go here, NBC terms the rioters "youths" although they include a big hint, writing: "The rampage in a tough neighborhood in Saint-Dizier, about 120 miles east of Paris, revived memories of a wave of car burnings, vandalism and clashes with police in 2005 fanned by feelings of alienation among French youths of Arab and African origin."