I do not mean to belittle the troubles of my brothers and sisters in France, a community that long predates many of those who call themselves Gaulois. (French scholars turn to the writings of the ancient rabbis of Provence to read descriptions of how their beloved French language was pronounced a thousand years ago.) But Iím not one for gívaltism. My grandparents uncles and cousinsóthose who survivedóhad no opportunity to make arrangements. They left everything behind.

That the Gaulois are more than happy to see their Hebrew neighbors depart is more a tragedy for them than for the departing Hebrews. These are, after all, the last of their kind in France. Their more realistic, less Francophile brethren have been leaving for years. The Hebrews who remain are the fools who truly love France. As that fool in French uniform Dryfus once loved her.

But when these Jews will be settling into new lives in Montreal, and elsewhere where freedomís light yet burns, the Gaulois will be studying Sharia 101 in madrassa reeducation camps.

The debate over immigration now roiling congress may soon take an ominous turn. Any day now, Frenchmen in their millions will notice that the disgusting albeit not uninteresting stench wafting up from the wine cellar appears to have left the canary cold and stiff at the bottom of its cage. Can the United States handle the human tsunami that follows? Mass migration from Europe?

Strategically speaking, can we Americans allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by a huge, reflexively dependent, enterprise and entrepreneurship averse refugee horde brought to our shores only for lack of courage and commitment to democracy?

Our best bet is to work out an agreement with Canada and Australia to immediately suspend immigration from Europe. If Muslim bombs, fires, torture and murder canít rouse the Europeans, maybe pulling in the welcome mat will.

We bore the cost of Europeís defense for the entire twentieth century. To have civilized Europeans cave to Twelfth Century primitives without a fight on the assumption they can eventually jump ship for America and Australia is not acceptable. We have no shortage of socially and morally corrosive weaklings of our own and our workers donít need competition from a spineless, unambitious socialist mob of riot-prone foreigners.

“… but the truth about France’s tremendous losses in WWI should be respected. ”

One respects the sacrifice of the individuals but not French haughtiness, arrogance that resulted in those terrible losses.
The total stupidity on the part of the Officer Corps is a reflection of the attitude of the French “Elite” which has led to the morass they find themselves in.
I don’t know if there was a French attempt to understand what really happened in the Great War but “The Donkeys” was a British attempt at explaining.

Roger’s Apropos reminds me of a discussion some 30 odd years ago about research papers and why some French research was simply “reinventing the wheel”.
The answer was revealed by showing that the French demanded that the foreign research be submitted in French whereas in other countries papers in all languages were received and appropriately translated for faculty members.

The princess was taken to Germany and imprisoned at Pforzheim in solitary confinement (she was considered dangerous and uncooperative). Inayat Khan continued to refuse to give any information on her work or her fellow operatives.

On 11 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan, along with three other SOE agents, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment, were moved to Dachau Concentration Camp. The other three women were lined up and forced to kneel, after which each was executed by a single shot to the head. Noor was shackled in chains for months and beaten until she was a bloody mess and then shot. Her last word was “LibertÈ.”

Brave, brave women.

And Paris has always been very anti-semitic; there’s no difference between Nazi ideology that Jews were the source of the world’s problems, & the current depraved intellectual current that Israel is the source of all the world’s problems, a position fomented by Arabs & eagerly promulgated by European elites.

Now, however, the tail is wagging the dog, & France’s kowtowing to Islam looks more like dhimmitude in exchange for (temporary) exemption from Muslim terror.

All this chronicled in Eurabia by Bat Ye’or