French Jewish leader chides Israeli on emigration

PARIS, Nov. 18 - The head of France's worried Jewish
community chided Israel's ambassador to Paris on
Tuesday for saying French Jews were now so afraid of
anti-Semitic attacks that many of them were thinking
about emigrating.

Roger Cukierman, head of the Crif umbrella group of Jewish
organisations, said Ambassador Nissim Zvili may have exaggerated
the situation in the hope of winning immigrants for Israel.
Zvili spoke of rising concern on Saturday after a Jewish school
near Paris was firebombed in an attack that prompted the government
to launch a fight against a ''new anti-Semitism,'' coming mostly from
the immigrant Muslim community.
Asked about Zvili's comments, Cukierman told RTL radio: ''I think
they're really exaggerated... The Israelis need immigration, so one can
understand that they want to see a maximum number of Jews coming
to their country.''
MSNBC

of some but then again the French Jews never fell for half the garbage that passes as "fact" in the US.


What a crying shame.

Vive la France!

I thought the fact that the US is screwing the GOI for
7% on the loan guarantees was pretty funny too, and without
bothering to mention it.

This one just seemed a restatement of the obvious to me, while I
have no doubt there are some Jew-haters in France, I expect one
can be Jewish in France and lead a quite satisfactory life, and
comparing it to the situation half-a-century ago is simply
ludicrous.

Meanwhile things continue to slide downhill in Israel, and nobody
wants to address any fundamental issues so we get all this blather.

Human rights, medical care, political reform.
A political settlement suitable to allow people to
get along and live together in peace. People who are
well-fed, busy, and reasonably content will not be
so focused on finding ways to blow each other up.
What you get when you focus all your resources on the
military and on military solutions to problems is, duh,
war and conflict.

In the particular instance, I meant working on those issues
that must be resolved to end the current conflict and get
everybody back to work, i.e. unilaterally complying with the
road map, showing good faith first, etc. Call the other guys
bluff.