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by Yves Mamou
• November 29, 2016 at 5:00 am
- "Moreover,
it is puzzling and disturbing that France adopts a double standard
in relation to Israel, while ignoring 200 territorial conflicts
currently taking place around the world, including those taking
place right on its doorstep." — Response of Israel's Foreign
Ministry to France's new labeling regulations.
- In the Ukraine,
a few sanctions were imposed by France and EU, but there was never
any labeling of food or cosmetic products.
- Ironically, and
sadly, the people most negatively affected by the French and EU
regulations will be the 25,000 Palestinians employed by Israelis in
the West Bank.
- In just one
year, 2016, France and its socialist president have made multiple
hostile gestures towards Israel, which reveal more about raw
anti-Semitism posing as anti-Israelism in France than about its
unjustly solitary target.
- The Muslim vote
is now an important factor in French politicians' decisions. In
2012, socialist President François Hollande was elected with 93% of
the Muslim vote. That is how diplomacy is made conducted in France,
and in Europe generally. It is a diplomacy solidly rooted in
domestic policy. It is a domestic policy made by dhimmi
politicians.
In France, retail chains and importers now have the legal obligation
to label products originating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and
the Golan Heights.
On November 24, the Official Gazette of the French Republic (JORF)
published Regulation No 1169/2011, ordering "economic
operators" to inform consumers about "the origin of goods from
the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967."
This French regulation is an application of the interpretive notice
issued by the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ), on November
12, 2015. The notice states that the EU "does not recognise Israel's
sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967,
namely the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including
East Jerusalem, and does not consider them to be part of Israel's
territory" and claims it is responding to "a demand for clarity
from consumers, economic operators and national authorities".
by Nonie Darwish
• November 29, 2016 at 4:00 am
- If we do not
demand equal cultural access, such a cultural imbalance will result
in one side absorbing the values of the other, while keeping the
Islamic nation "pure" and free of any outside influence.
This one-sided cultural tyranny is forcing us, the American citizen,
into tolerating intolerance while never expecting anything more aligned
to Western values from the Muslim world.
- As soon as
Muslims form a small community inside a Western nation, they
immediately deny access to any kind of Biblical preaching or
education inside their community, but at the same time apparently
feel entitled to demand access to preach the Koran in American
prisons and spread Islamic culture and values in American schools.
- If Muslims
finance Islamic Studies departments on American campuses and teach
Islam in our public schools, the same rights must be awarded to
Americans. It is true there are a few American schools in the Middle
East, such as the American University in Cairo, but these schools
are forbidden from having departments of Biblical Studies.
- If Muslim
governments and citizens have full access to build mosques in
America, America must insist on having the same access in their
countries. That is not the fault of Muslim countries, so much as it
is the fault of Western "multiculturalism," which expects
nothing and is adhered to only by Western nations.
- If such one-sided
access of Islam into the West continues, while other religions in
Muslim communities and countries are considered by them illegal
"hate crimes," Western culture and the values of free will
and religious freedom will atrophy and die. Islamists are counting
on Western inertia to win.
Dearborn police arrest a Christian for the
"crime" of peacefully preaching to Muslims at the Dearborn Arab
International Festival, in 2010.
Similar to the often-mentioned trade imbalance, there is a large
imbalance Western nations and Muslim nations that is hardly ever
mentioned: the cultural imbalance.
Muslims have access to build mosques in the West, yet give no access
to the West to build churches or synagogues in Muslim countries. Muslim
governments finance "Islamic Studies" and "Middle East
Studies" departments in almost all major American universities, but
will not allow Christian Studies or Judaic Studies departments at any
university in the Muslim world. They freely preach Islam everywhere and
consider it their right. But not one Muslim country legally permits
Christian missionary work, and those few missionaries who dare to try are
harshly punished, imprisoned or killed.
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