The French and Their Guests

The American conservatives are delighted with the French Prime Minister's recent "defiant" and "forceful" speech on defending French Jews and defeating anti-Semitism. But, what's wonderful or forceful about this evasive address? He's using the term "anti-Semitism" as a euphemism for "Muslim." Euphemizing the problem is the opposite of being forceful. This is more politically correct garbage from another garbage dealer, one who refuses to recognize the threats posted by both Muslims and Jews. His claim that without the Jews there is no France is absurd--France built itself into the most powerful and culturally accomplished nation in the world during its Jewless era. England followed an identical course. For realists, the question is whether the talents the Jews afford their hosts compensates for the socio-political debasement they inflict. In Israel, this dilemma magically resolves itself. (Could it be the Tribe instinctively undermines the Other, but not itself?)