The Everlasting Phelps
03/04/2003
France Through the Eyes of a Frenchman
Even I was surprised and a tiny bit incredulous at the accusations of widespread anti-semitism and gang-rape, but it isn't an incredible statement taken in the wide view. This brought me back into accepting that things can be that bad, because this rings 100% true:If you want to understand why all this is happening, you have to understand one thing: thirty years ago, French governments started to have a new foreign policy. They called this new policy, "Arabian Policy." France became closer to Arab countries - all of them disgusting dictatorships. France "benefited" by doing business easily in these countries. In exchange, France had to push Europe to unknot its ties with Israël and the United States. In exchange too, "professors" came from the Arabian dictatorships to teach the Arabic language to the young Arabs living in France. The only book they used to teach the Arabic language was THE book, Al Kuran.Now comes the time to pay the check: six million Muslims live in France, at least ten per cent of them are radical Islamists poised on the edge of violence. And these radical Muslims have allies on both the extreme Left and the extreme Right. France is not a Western country anymore, it is now the leader of the Arab/Muslim world. Israel has to know France is its main enemy. The United States has to understand they have nothing to expect from today's France except nastiness, treason, and cheating.
01/04/2003
ArabNews: Exclusive: 'As Long as It Takes'
Arab News is a strange duck. The editorial page is as far into Bizzaro World as you can get, but the reporting on the ground (when not censored by the Saudi government) is pretty good. This one fits that bill. It also confirms what so many, from US reporters to Human Shields, are reporting:On camera, the general feeling among the crowd was sorrow at losing Saddam. Off camera, the citizens of Umm Qasr and Basra appeared genuinely exhilarated at the prospect of a brighter future, after Saddam had been removed.
Routed Islamists had UK links, say Kurds
The real story here is that this raid may be the Rosetta Stone that links Hussain and Al Quieda.31/03/2003
Are the Arabs really this stupid?
I've asked myself the same question over and over. This one does a good job of exploring the issue. This one is the what no one seems to want to face:Well, for one thing, the hothouse logic of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is surely spilling over into this one. For decades, Arab governments and the newspapers they control have been pouring gasoline on the fire of Arab resentment toward Israel as a way to deflect attention from their own corrupt and impoverished regimes. No doubt, there are Palestinians with serious and legitimate grievances against Israel (and vice versa) but Arabs in Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc., who have no plans ever to visit historic Palestine, have no relatives there, and, were it not for the presence of Jews there, would not care about the plight of the Palestinians at all, have been convinced that their problems can be attributed to the oppression of the Palestinians. The Palestinians are the Sudenten Germans for any number of dictatorial regimes, beginning with Iraq.
