|
Author
|
Topic: French speak out against Sharon's call to leave
|
lagatta
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 2534
|
posted 24 July 2004 01:28 PM
Robert Badinter, former president of the French Constitutional Council, has joined the chorus of Frenchpersons (of Jewish, Arabo-Muslim and other backgrounds) speaking out against Sharon's urgent call for "Jews of France" to leave their homeland. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-373358,0.html He said the call was offensive both to the millions of Muslims in France and to the Jewish Frenchpersons urged to leave their own country. Another group protesting is "Une autre voix juive" (Another Jewish voice). L'appel "Une autre voix juive", qui regroupe des personnalités juives solidaires du peuple palestinien, a estimé, mercredi 21 juillet, que le premier ministre israélien "spécule sur la sensibilité légitime des citoyens juifs au fait israélien pour les détourner des valeurs de la citoyenneté au bénéfice d'une idéologie nationaliste et d'un racisme anti-arabe". Ariel Sharon, ajoute le communiqué, "attise l'antisémitisme en espérant l'exploiter au profit de l'Etat d'Israël, engagé plus que jamais dans une politique de négation des droits du peuple palestinien, avec laquelle de très nombreux citoyens français juifs ou d'origine juive sont en profond désaccord". L'appel, lancé en 2003, a été notamment signé par Stéphane Hessel, Raymond Aubrac, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Abraham Segal, Nicole Bernheim, Alain Lipietz, Henri Malberg.
From: Se non ora, quando? | Registered: Apr 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
skdadl
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 478
|
posted 24 July 2004 02:03 PM
Oh, good. This discussion is in the right place this time. lagatta, I don't know who these people are -- can you tell us more about any of them? quote:
signé par Stéphane Hessel, Raymond Aubrac, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Abraham Segal, Nicole Bernheim, Alain Lipietz, Henri Malberg.
Sharon is such a cynic. I think it remains important to remember the forum he was speaking to: USian visitors. He must have known, though, that he would get some reaction from the French, gentiles, Jews, Muslims, whatever. I wonder whether he quite anticipated the intensity of the anger.
From: gone | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
al-Qa'bong
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 3807
|
posted 24 July 2004 02:34 PM
quote:
Sharon is such a cynic. I think it remains important to remember the forum he was speaking to: USian visitors.
Yes; denigrating France while speaking to Yanks. France-bashing seems to be encouraged in the USA, and the French know it. Sharon is trying to alienate Europe in American eyes. Something that one doesn't often hear mentioned is that Europeans financed much of the infrastructure construction that went on in the Palestinian Authority. US-supplied weapons destroyed that infrastructure. France and Europe aren't going to forget this very soon.
From: Saskatchistan | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Email this thread to someone!
It's not like there are no anti-semitic incidents happening in the US.
