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Anti-Semitism in France
(New Republic) Martin Peretz - Chirac demonstrated in an off-hand remark that, for him, neither Jews nor Muslims, for that matter, are really genuinely French: "We are witnessing racial events involving our Jewish and Muslim compatriots....Sometimes just simple Frenchmen are attacked." This is an ugly dichotomy. France went into a frenzy to mobilize the countries of the EU at the UN to vote "yes" on the General Assembly resolution calling on Israel to take down the security barrier it is building against Palestinian terror. Many fatuous reasons were mustered to support this demand. But the real reason that France and some others oppose the fence is that it works.