The World v. France
So Aunt Agatha wants to talk smack, eh? [See below] What’s French for “bring it on”?
The way I see it, France is going to be really happy for the foreseeable future that Israel exists. I’ve lost count of the number of countries whose militaries have trained with the IDF on urban warfare against Muslim insurgencies. What is the West Bank, but one big perpetual war game, with live bullets and dead bodies? If the French trains are running yet, they may want to dispatch a few soldiers down Ramallah way to see the Marseilles of the future—and how to police, if not pacify, it. I can’t say I know the French mind when it comes to Jews (though Ilan Halimi might have an opinion, were he alive to express it), but there are least a few Jews to whom the French will remain beholden if they know what’s good for them.
As for France’s right to exist, I’m all for a conference. But who will play the role of Saudi Arabia, an utterly irrelevant party to the negotiations? I suggest Greenland. Not only will frosty Greenland soon look like Saudi Arabia, if the global warming alarmists are to be believed, but no one lives there to refuse to shake the hands of the French delegation, as the Saudis refused to shake the Israeli’s hands. (Yes, I know a few people live there—I’ve read Smilla’s Sense of Snow—it’s still a metaphorical no one) But considering Jews have lived in the land of Israel since the French were quarrelsome, nomadic dwarfs (plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose), and they still have to justify their existence, I don’t think it will go well for the French.
For any Bloodthirstani who think Mummy and Daddy are fighting, I hasten to reassure you we are as one. In fact, when I remember the savagery of Ilan Halimi’s murder, and the festering wound of unassimilated, self-pitying Muslims burning down the Metrolands, I pray only that those Jews of France who are left get out while the getting’s good, before the dark night of barbarity fully cloaks that pitiful country.
PS: Hot Air has more on the rioting, including an intriguing idea of airborn tasers, zapping the rampaging masses like a scene out of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Magnifique!