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Wednesday, September 24, 2003


French voices of sanity
Joe Katzman several days ago discussed and linked to some brave voices in Europe, especially France, who are speaking up against the simple-minded anti-Americanism becoming more prevalent each day.

As the authors discuss, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Europe are closely linked. (They are also linked here in America, but not nearly to the degree as in Europe.) Says one French essayist in "The Coming Anti-Semitism,"

After a brief interlude, the grand simplifiers are back. We have seen, since the end of Communism, a stupefying re-Stalinization of part of the intelligentsia and the progressive movement… [The] image of an all-powerful America breathes new life into the pernicious notion that politics is responsible for everything: all disasters are perceived as crimes; the objective universe appears to be made up of subjective wills, those that fight against evil and those that foment it. Thus conspiracy thinking is again taking over simple minds, and conspiracy leads sooner or later to the Elders of Zion.
Joe’s post is not long, it is thorough as his posts always are, and is well worth your time.

Besides, it’s heartening to learn that there are indeed French voices of sanity, and not just a few.

by Donald Sensing, 9/24/2003 02:43:14 PM. Permalink |  





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