(Fox News) Anne Bayefsky - The warm feelings on display in Paris in response to the recent horrors, unfortunately, will do next to nothing to change the tide against Islamist terrorism. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, now entering the eleventh year of what was originally billed as a four-year term, turned up to represent a would-be Judenrein state, where terrorism and the absence of the rule of law are the order of the day. And then there is France's Jewish problem. There is no getting away from the fact that to be Jewish in France in 2015, you might have to hide in a basement freezer if you want to survive a trip to the grocery store. On Dec. 30, 2014, France voted for a Palestinian resolution in the Security Council, and against the United States. The resolution trashed a negotiated path to a Palestinian state (and thus genuine Arab acceptance of a Jewish state). The writer is director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.
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