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All is not well in France
Clara Beyler
Published: 24.02.06, 10:28
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31. #27
Jane   (02.25.06)
Our G-d commands us to seek peace and justice. He also commands us to kill those who come to kill us.
32. The Antijew situation in Eurabia is bad...
alan ,   south africa   (02.25.06)
but what makes it worse is the trivialization and downplayment of this Antijewism by the Police , Media and the Deparments of State of the Eurabian countries ....Never mind, day by day ,more and more people in Eurabia are begining to see the light.
33. ahahahaha yasmeen
(02.25.06)
yes your hiness the CHOSEN ONES I WILL LISTON SO FUNNY I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING..
34. Tragic end to kidnapping
Mitch ,   London, UK   (02.25.06)
It's too early to be sure but all the signs of antisemitism being present are there. Even if other kidnappings for ransom money have taken place, in this instance, the unfortunate Jewish boy was mistreated and tortured for 3 weeks and finally murdered. On the other hand, the French police didn't do a good job in liaising with the family and the gang to try and save the victim.
35. #13
Joan ,   Haifa   (02.25.06)
Are you rabidly antisemitic, dysgraphic or just "pathetacly stuiped" [sic]? (Maybe a combination of all 3?)
36. to AA
Ray   (02.26.06)
Does your G-d teach you to fly airplanes into buildings, blow up buses and subways, mutilate and behaed inoncent people, commit genocide in Darfur and Nigeria, take children hostage in Beslon...may add more?
37. #30
Jane   (02.26.06)
And maybe more civilized. And maybe more willing to compromise. And maybe less selfish and greedy. And maybe more dignified. But not better. Maybe.
38. #13
ganteng ,   Jakarta, Indonesia   (02.26.06)
I came from the largest islamic country in the world : INDONESIA. & I'm ashamed of it. Beautiful country with naive people led by evil islamic ulama/haji. & become one of terrorist hot spot. If you are minority live in islam majority country = HELL. No peace, safety. Living constantly in fear. The muslims everywhere is a bunch of stupid, fanatic, jealous, barbaric, hypocrites, hateful, pathetic & everything that 's describe evil. It grow fast in poor & uneducated place & prison because islam justified their lust to kill, rape, torture, cleansing other ethnic/belief in the name of their allah. They blame other for their own stupidity / misfortune. Blame jew, chinese, westerner, christian, hindu, buddhist, communist, feminist, confusionist, & every single being but themselves for they taught that way. Eventhough they don't know exactly what others did to them, just from being told by their religious leader. islam said they are religion of peace while they are commiting horrendeous act against humanity, unleash by the devil itself. It's not peace ... but peace/piece of shit. They destroy civilization. All conflict in the world now is committed by islam : islam-usa : world islam-europe : world islam-christian : world islam-buddha : bamian buddha in afghanistan islam-hindu : india, bali islam-chinese : Indonesia' riot May 98 even islam-islam : Aceh, Indonesia & Iraq recently Anti semitism, anti western, anti chinese, & other antis by them. When others, especially european/westerner always helped moslems, they still shamelessly react like ungrateful dog. the example of this moron is AA, london on #13. Heartless animal whose spread evil in london. You should go back to your country & spread it over there. Everybody should aware of these PROBLEMS of the world : islam. Before its to late. My condolescence to the victim family.
39. all of the above who talks about islam
aa ,   london   (02.26.06)
first of all you all assumed i was a muslim , which in fact iam very far away from it and i disagree with 90% of the muslims i face , and i consider muslims and jews alike , but my freinds , i was talking about and still talking about occupation , apparthied treatment of people , i was agaist the whites in south africa , and iam agaist israel today , just like i was against the english when they occupied irlend . so stay in the subject , you idiots and dont mix religon with occupation , and land theaft , and deception , and just trying to rule the world and making your own laws to whatever fits you better , like the jews , who are in disbeleif after one jew got killed in paris , and they all made such a big thing about it .
40. aa, london
kapara   (02.26.06)
you have such a simple mind it is incredible....I could argue everything in your brainwashed mind, but lets just try and see if one item can enter your simple mind. apartheid? you want to talk about apartheid? HOW MANY JEWS/CHRISTIANS WERE ALLOWED TO IMIGRATE TO IRAN/IRAQ/SAUDIARABIA/JORDAN/YEMEN/SYRIA/LEBANON/DUBAI/LYBIA, ETC. LAST YEAR...? OR THE YEAR BEFORE? OR LETS JUST SAY IN THE PAST FIFTY YEARS? YOU KNOW THE ANSWER...ZERO. Are you sure you want to talk about apartheid? In truth, the arabs successfully ethnically cleansed all their lands of jews without you complaining even once. The bottom line is that there is a conflict that can only be resolved through compromise. Israel has no one to compromise with.
41. AA+BB does not equal CC
KE Gei Fu ,   MP CA   (02.26.06)
Palestine= Jordan Moslems should read the Torah to learn the real truth behind the identity of the people who should claim Jerusalem as their capital. Islamic extremism is the biggest threat to the safety of this planet since global warming.
42. WHY DID POLICE NOT TRACE PHONE CALLS & E-MAILS MADE BY GANG?
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (02.26.06)
Why did the police not trace the phone calls and e-mails made by the kidnappers to the family? No to do so, makes the police complicit in the prolonged, horrendous suffering of precious llan. The police also forbade the family from publicizing the abduction. The blanket of silence prevented an informed public helping to locate llan. Prevented millions of Jews and non-Jews around the world praying for llan.
43. French Jews must leave soon or else.
Eric ,   USA   (02.26.06)
The French, just like the Islamonazis in their midst, want to cleanse the world of Jews. Soon, Islamofascist thugs will take to murdering Jews in large numbers, and the French government and the media will not only turn a blind eye, they will help. Then they will seize all assets of Jews when they leave the country. Jews of France -- get your assets and get your asses out of France while you still can. Before you are murdered.
44. To #23 Christine Shoffner:
Edan ,   Beer Sheva   (02.26.06)
First of all this has nothing to do with the written article, which is very disturbing to say the least. I read most of the resonses and I want to thank Seth (#19) for making me laugh. Now as for Christine -- I just wanted to point out a couple of things . To start with you are a hypocrite. Plain and simple. You say you are a God loving Christian. Personally I am a jew, but somewhere I heard that christianity teaches love and respect for all. When you call Mohammed murderous and call Allah "the moon god" thats not love and thats not respect. Either I misunderstood christianity or you are simply a bad christian (oh no ! you won't be saved come "rapture"). Second of all, let us look at the word "liberal" ,shall we. M. Webster says a liberal is someon who "supports civil liberties, democratic reforms, and use of governmental power to promote social progress". In that case it was the liberals who fought for civil rights alongside the blacks, and it was the liberals who protested the war in Vietnam, it was the liberals who advocated US intervention in WW2 , it is liberals now who are fighting the NRA ,and it was liberals WHO FOUGHT TO END SLAVERY!!! You probably love the jews with all of your heart right..?? Well heres one -- the jews are liberal BY NATURE. You are so certain that you are on the "right side of G-d's plan" that you see the world in black and white. Most of it is grey , Christine...
45. 44# Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (02.26.06)
Conservative kind of President, not a liberal, that freed the slaves. The Liberals later helped with the rights of blacks. Now they race bait at every opportunity. I hear the whitie has it in for you slogan every day from the Democratic Party. Truth be told, I don't have enough time in the day to worry about bringing down the blacks. I'm just getting by, like everyone else. It's easier to play the race card though. Especially if you want your constituency, which is black, to vote you into office.
46. #38
Jane   (02.26.06)
May G-d bless you and grant your country and all of us Peace.
47. #39
Jane   (02.26.06)
We did not make such a big thing about it. It is a big thing. One begets another begets another. It is not the Jews who mix religion with politics. It is the Muslims. As to what you refer to as the occupation, let the Palestinians act like human beings for once, learn to compromise and educate their children for peace, and you will be amazed at what can happen. So you're not Muslim. Perhaps. Perhaps you are typical anti-global, lefty, anarchistic Eurotrash who will excuse any kind of behavior in the name of the revolution. Yeah, man, I'm from the 60's. That's tired old crap that should have been stuffed in the trashbin of history. Love and peace. Now that's part of the 60's worth carrying forward. But the price you expect Jews to pay is national suicide. We will not pay it.
48. Leftist appeasement at home creates antsemitism in galut
Dudu ,   Kfar Sava   (02.26.06)
49. Hmmm, What have Jews contributed?
Merry ,   New Orleans, USA   (02.27.06)
JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS Literature 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Chemistry 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1972 - William Howard Stein 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1989 - Sidney Altman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Rober Fogel 1994 - Harsanyi, John C. 2001 - Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2001 - Akerlof, George A. 2002 - Kahneman, Daniel Medicine 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - David Baltimore 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1997 - Prusiner, Stanley B. 1998 - Furchgott, Robert F. 2000 - Kandel, Eric R. 2000 - Greengard, Paul Physics 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1995 - Martin Perl 1996 - Osheroff, Douglas D. 1996 - Lee, David M 1997 - Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Arab/Islamic NOBEL Winners Literature 1957 Albert Camus 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat Chemistry 1990 Elias James Corey 1999 - Ahmed Zewail Medicine 1960 Peter Brian Medawar 1998 Ferid Mourad
50. French Jews must leave soon or else
Valerie ,   Canada   (02.27.06)
I totally agree that Jews in France must leave ASAP before they are murdered not one by one but in large numbers. Israel will welcome you with open arms as will Canada particularly Montreal Quebec where French is the number one spoken language. May G-d watch over you and protect you from the scourge of anti-Semitism. Valerie
51. #13 Like a typical Jew-hater you blame the victims.
AK   (02.27.06)
52. Edan you see the world grey, that's your problem.
AK   (02.27.06)
You see, sometimes things are simply white and black, like freedom vs. slavery; or safe Israel vs. Palestinian state instead. As religions go, Islam has a dubious distinction to be at war with every other religion it encounters and a religion whose constant conquests and hatred of infidel are well documented characteristics is definitely not a religion of peace. Your statement that Jews are "liberal BY NATURE" is arrogant and juvenile.
53. Halimi Murder
John Greenberg ,   Chicago Il USA   (02.27.06)
B'SD The Jews must set up legally armed defense untis,as well as having all young and older Jews learn karate and street fighting so as to be able G-D willing to protect each other.It has been in the news what Jewish Defense Organization has done to help protect Jews. The whole story is on the JDO website WWW.JDO.ORG JDO are a self-defense group that is inspired by what Jabotinsky did before the Holocaust in similar situations.
54. #53
Jane   (02.27.06)
But now we have a State, Baruch Hashem. Don't you think going there would solve a lot of problems? And it's a mitzvah to boot!
55. yeah well ... excellent
Mories   (02.28.06)
... cause you know, the arabs just wanted to let the jews taste a bit of their own medicine, i do not see why that should be so tragic. also: clearly, the people all around where content with what was going on, so, thats called basis democracy.
56. Murderers not muslim nor anti.semitist
Therapix   (02.28.06)
They've been arrested in Ivory Coast and all they wanteed was the money...
57. AA should try reading history
r00tarded ,   ny, us   (02.28.06)
AA, try reading some history about what ACTUALLY happened post-British-colonialism. The Palestinians (or just plain arabs as they were once known) had a fair shot at having a state in the late 40's but decided that it wasn't good enough, they wanted all of the land plus no more jews. And they lost. Now they've become the sore losers of the world. Never mind the fact that the surrounding arab countries don't want the Palestinians either and were the reason they lived in refugee camps rather than being settled. Lets not forget that the Palestinians (and Arafat) were kicked out of Lebanon and Jordan.
58. you are right, I am stuip :(
aa ,   london   (02.28.06)
59. Weird discussion
olivier ,   Paris   (02.28.06)
Hi! Before all, I apologize for the way I speak english! I really feel bad when I read things like: ''get your asses out of France while you still can. Before you are murdered''. It's true there are a lot of tensions in Europe between arabic community and jewish community, mainly because of easy shortcuts wirh the conflict in Israel. However I don't want France or any European countries to be considered as antisemist, because this is not true. 98% of the population still have the holocaust in his memory and is determine to fight antisemism. Just have a look to the demonstrations in all main french cities. It's also weird to say things such as ''the french governement try to downward or hide the why of this murder''. A lot of french politicians (Sarkozy included) were in the streets for the demonstrations. This awfull death is already registered as a ''racist murder'' by the french law. I really don't think that the politicians are trying to hide that. and I Know that 99% of the french people are horrified by this murder. Anyway, I just think it's important to moderate your conclusions. There is a probleme, it is obvious! but please don't do amalgams with european countries being antisemists. Once more, sorry for my english! Olivier
60. muslims are not antisemitism
khel ,   usa   (03.01.06)
its not the educated muslims fault if by chance tht story is true n its not jus bullsh!t to keep muslim community with hate..then its the non educated ppl...non EDUCATED....illl tell u straight up if u have a brain n u dont follow properganda then u no...tht in east muslim community is weak n hungry n if some one was to offer money they would take it...so basiccallly w/e is happendin is the power of MONEY....think think n think agn before u blame n hate....tc KH
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