Following the long trend of attacks by Muslims upon French Jews, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel has called for all French Jews to relocate to Israel, and has called for an alteration of his country’s immigration policies to permit the migration.
In response, PM Hollande of France has promised to defend Jewish property with the French army if necessary, and has opposed Netanyahu’s proposal, which would have the same impact as exile from France. It would affect the 500,000 Jews still living in France.
By comparison, there are roughly 4.1 million Muslims in the country, out of a total population of about 66 million, of which roughly 45 million are Catholic.
In this way, small networks of Islamic guerrillas operating across national borders will have achieved at least some of their strategic objectives. Netanyahu’s statement is also an embarrassment to the might of the French state, which has proven itself incapable of deterring spectacular attacks of this nature, and has, indeed, encouraged these attacks by encouraging Islamic migration to France in enormous numbers.
It is quite difficult, perhaps impossible to determine what the French government actually wants to achieve. As far as the administrators of the government are concerned, the more occasions that it has to spend more money on extravagances like military guards for delis and synagogues along with more welfare offices to tend to Islamic immigrants, the better for them.
The suffering caused to the people by misgovernment, on the other hand, is not something that Prime Ministers, taken as a class, seems to barely factor into the decisions that they make.
The irony here is that it would be the left who would be responsible for the exile of the Jews from France, and not the right. The right wing parties are often likened to the Nazis for their opposition to open immigration. Hollande may achieve what Hitler could not, largely because of their support for open immigration, which has made formerly tolerable living arrangements intolerable.
Think about it from the jihadist’s perspective: what’s the perfect target now? A ‘guarded’ synagogue or deli or whatever. What a statement that makes, and what a psychological impact.
A french policeman who isn’t used to being allowed to shoot anyone is a sitting duck. Didn’t we just see how a single black guy with a chip on his shoulder killed a couple of NYC cops (who are more used to killing and defending themselves) easily on impulse and with just a handgun and just because he took them by surprise?
The guys who took out Charlie Hebdo were trained, worked in teams, and had AKs. Some old gendarme tasked to stand half-daydreaming by a temple’s front door on a Saturday morning is an easy pick.
You pop that guy and storm the place and the exodus starts and Netanyahu gets his Herzlian wish (and an influx of Euros), and France goes judenrein and the French will get a close-up look at what rapid, quality-downgrading population replacement looks like.
Imagine what they could have done if they had had a second fire team, rather than just one, and had proper drivers.
Police travel in pairs when in difficult neighborhoods, and the majority of the time, they are handling non-violent disputes. Putting France on military footing internally would have further bad consequences — economic, moral, etc.
I suspect Netanyahu will get what he wants even if nothing new happens — and more things will happen.
Yup.
Things will keep getting worse before they get better, and in fact must get worse in order to get better. The situation will clarify itself.
Of course a major impetus for the immigration was in fact Jewish advocacy, because they wanted to weaken the system and society that, in the last war, decided it didn’t care for them too much. Presented with the results of their actions, they are horrified, but they don’t see the connection. It’s the same pattern that’s been going on for millennia.
As for the French state, the left has been fighting for control of it since 1789, and pretty decisively won control of it when they manipulated Napoleon III into fighting Bismarck with a woefully underprepared military. Today they are reacting and being driven by events and unforeseen (by them) consequences just as much as everyone else. Until the king returns, I’m (as a Frenchman) not terribly concerned about what the French state wants or doesn’t want.
For your sake, let’s wish the king a speedy return to the throne!