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by Yves Mamou
• February 20, 2017 at 5:00 am
- France's Muslim
population could quickly grow to close to 15-17 million, but no one
can know precisely unless the law prohibiting the official
collection of ethnic data is changed.
- These figures
do not take into consideration the Muslim population that immigrated
to France from North Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. There are
a few million of them -- nobody knows how many exactly. For
demographers, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are not
regarded as immigrants anymore. These Muslims are, rather,
integrated into statistics as French citizens born of French
parents. They are Muslim, but under the statistics radar.
A new study from France's National Institute of
Statistics and Economic Studies, "Being born in France to an
immigrant parent," provides some telling information on the ethnic
composition of French society.
From time to time, France's National Institute of Statistics and
Economic Studies (Insee) offers a glimpse of the ethnic composition of
French society. The study, "Being born in France to an immigrant
parent" (Être né en France d'un parent immigré), published in
February 2017, is one of them.
by Bernhard Lazarus
• February 20, 2017 at 4:30 am
- It is worth
noting that the Jewish State was effectively created through the
efforts of the countries of the world in San Remo and Geneva years prior
to the Holocaust.
- Jerusalem,
except for fewer than 200 years in the 11th and 12th
Centuries, when it was the capital of a short-lived Crusader State,
has only been a capital city under Jewish rule. At other times since
the Roman conquest it was not even considered by Muslims, or anyone
else, a provincial city of consequence.
- In the War of
1948-49, Jordan illegally seized Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its
Jewish inhabitants, destroyed all the synagogues and on top of the
ancient sacred Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, after taking
ancient Jewish headstones to use as the floor of latrines, Jordan
built a hotel.
- The aggression
by Egypt, Syria and Jordan in June 1967 was overturned by Israel.
Israel liberated Jerusalem, took control of the Golan Heights, from
which Syrians had been shooting down at Israeli farmers, and entered
the West Bank, which was under illegal Jordanian occupation.
- Anti-Apartheid
movements in South Africa wanted equal political and other
democratic rights for all -- irrespective of race -- but never
advocated the destruction of South Africa.
- Israel
currently has no Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the post of
Minister of Information does not exist. This creates the message, as
former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir put it, of being the
"prime minister of six million prime ministers".
- An even more
urgent condition is that Israeli authorities refuse to deal with the
considerable number of renegade Israeli academics (and others)
harming Israel on the international scene, presumably for their
personal reasons.
"War is the continuation of politics by other means," said
by General Carl von Clausewitz nearly 200 years ago, has now morphed into:
"Politics is war by other means".
Enemies who are inferior militarily have understood this; hence,
from the height of admiration after the Six Day War, Israel has hit
bottom, sharing the position with the likes of North Korea.
How and why is this?
A knowledge of history is essential; therefore it is the first thing
one's enemies try to destroy. If one can falsely claim that biblical
places such as Rachel's Tomb, the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Temple
Mount or even Jerusalem are Islamic, even though Islam did not,
historically, exist until hundreds of years later, one can consequently
claim that there never was a Jewish connection to the land – so then why
should the Jews have it?
by Timon Dias
• February 19, 2017
It's a sentiment that only a few contemporary thinkers have touched
on. And when they did, it was in a fleeting manner, without elaborating
on why it is that if Israel falls, Europe will soon follow. It's not a
new sentiment.
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