Ok…since there are articles about this issue everyday since the attacks began, I’m going to take yesterday’s paper, in search for some statements…Well it’s about the attack against a Jewish soccer team :
The mayor of the town of Bondy where it happened: “an act extremely serious”
Jospin, the prime minister “an abject action”
E. Guigou, minister of employment “express her indignation”
Nothing from the president in this article, so I take the paper from the day before. Chirac said: “These attacks, whatever could be their origin, are shameful for our country. The racial or religious hatred, whatever form it could take, must be repressed with an exemplary firmness. the authority of the state must be without weakness”
So, if “must be repressed with an exemplary firmness and without weakness” isn’t a strong statement, what exactly is? If “abject” isn’t a sufficiently strong word, what will be?
And please note that these are the very first quotes I found in the paper, so concerning your unability to “post examples of what’s missing” : either you’ve been unable to find any statement by a french (or european) leader, and in this case, you should say “I’ve no clue about what french leaders have said so i’ve no opinion about their stance”, either you have found statements which prove your point about their antisemitism and you should be able to post them.
Try again. I’m sure that in some 5 minutes long speech strongly condemning the attacks, you’ll be able to find a couple of sentences which, interpreted in your usual biaised way, will show that actually the speaker don’t care at all (sorry…not that he don’t care…that he’s antisemitic, since it’s your stance)
Now, let’s come to the “strong actions”. Can you tell me what actions should have been implemented, in your opinion which haven’t been? Since you apparently know that the french government didn’t do what it should have, it should be an easy question…(unless you’ve have actually no clue about that…but it this case, you certainly wouldn’t make this kind of statements, would you?)
I’ve no clue about the Betar apart the fact that they engage in streetfights and I don’t know about what Chirac talked with the Israeli representant. I guess you don’t really know, either.
From the quote you posted, he would have asked the ambassador to “control the activities of pro-israeli activist”. It doesn’t appear to me as equating “jews” and “israelis” (contrarily to the author of the article you posted to support your point, as already noted…so why would it be a problem when Chirac does since it’s not a problem when a journalist you agree with does, anyway?)
One would assume that the representant of Israel can have some influence on the “pro-israeli activists” in France. But once again I don’t know what was discussed. Actually, I don’t know anything apart from the two lines you posted, since I wasn’t aware that Chirac had summoned the ambassador on this issue.
And you didn’t respond about the totally idiotic “logic” of the journalist who “see the situation pretty much like you” (or perhaps you sharing his opinion is a hint about your own logic). You didn’t explain why french leaders=european leaders, either.
Well…I guess I’m going to stop answering to your posts since it’s a waste of time. Last time I argued with you, you called me antisemitic, because I criticized Israel, and according to you criticism about Israel is only a cover way to express antisemitism. So, by this standart, I guess that a lot of “european leaders” could be antisemitic too, indeed…