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SPEAKING OF JEWS

"Attacks Spur Fear in Jews" was a Washington Times headline on December 23, 2001. The story was about the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe and particularly in France. In France alone there were 350 attacks against Jews since the beginning of the "infitada" in Israel in October, 2000. Joseph Sitrul, the grand rabbi of France says the attacks intensified after 9-11. There are only 600,000 Jews in France, while there are more than 4,000,000 Muslim immigrants from North Africa.

Many synagogues have been burned and cemeteries desecrated by French Muslims. "The national media are openly pro-Palestinian. They portray the Palestinians as victims and the Jews as torturers," said the editor of the French Jewish Tribune.

Many Jewish leaders have said the Muslim assaults continue because of "Christian indifference." Actually this is not true at all. There are probably not as many Christian believers in France as there are Muslims. The church in France is a hollow shell. If there were very many Christians in France they probably would step forward to stop the Muslim abuse of Jews. The French government is purely secular. Indeed the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom was recently quoted as calling Israel "That sh...... little country."