August 16, 2006

Germany Stands Up to Syria in Support for Israel

Commenter A.M. Whittaker posts:

From the Embassy of Germany website:

Foreign Minister Steinmeier Cancels Trip to Syria

“Today’s speech by Syrian President Assad is a negative contribution that in no way does justice to the current challenges and opportunities in the Middle East. With positive and constructive action, Syria can restore the lost trust of the international community and represent its legitimate interests on this basis. However, a clear and unambiguous commitment to the settlement of regional interest disputes through peaceful means is indispensable as a basic prerequisite for this. Today’s speech by President Assad goes in the opposite direction. Therefore, I have decided not to travel to Damascus now.”

August 15, 2006

BRAVO!
Someone in the international community has shown some discernment!

Immigration to Israel is Up - Partly Because Radical Islam is Driving Jews Out of France

From ynet:

Record immigration to Israel in spite of crisis

Over 4,000 new immigrants from all over the world will have arrived in Israel from the beginning of July until the end of August

It's great that the love for Israel is so great as to increase immigration to that nation at this time.

But in the case of France, there is another force at work, one that threatens all non-Muslims. This morning I received the following email, which was widely distributed by a friend of mine.

Once again, the real news is conveniently not being reported as it should. At present, in my Hebrew class, there is a woman who recently made aliya (immigration to Israel) from Paris with her family. I have spoken with her about anti-Semitism in France and she confirmed that it is very, very serious and getting worse every week. She and her family fled Paris and came to Israel, fearing for their lives - literally. This is first hand, my friends.

To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an email that came from another Jew still in France. Please read! Will the world say nothing - again - as it did in Hitler's time?

He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing." Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire.

In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed;

so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles;

so was a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently

A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Moloto v cocktails,

and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted.

In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars.

The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Wake up, world! Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France;

a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant

a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was in the past week

So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:

First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

Second, boycott France and French products. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well directed pressure.

Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers. Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you care about need their help. The number one best selling book in France is "September 11: The Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

Is it any wonder that aliya from France to Israel has increased dramatically?

To my non-Muslim, non-Jewish French readers -- radical Islam teaches that all non-Muslims must be second-class citizens, or be killed. If the radical Islamists in France gain sufficient strength -- they will come after you. Get organized, and prevent the great and beautiful French culture, language, and way of life, from being destroyed.

I like to ask people, "You know what language they used to speak in Egypt?" No one ever knows the answer. The answer, I tell them, is... Egyptian. The ancient, great, and beautiful Egyptian culture has been erased from the face of the Earth, and replaced with Islam.

Don't let the same thing happen to ancient, great, and beautiful culture of France.