By Dror Mishani and Aurelia Smotriez
PARIS - The first thing the French-Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said to us when we met one evening at Paris’ elegant Le Rostand cafe, where the interior is decorated with Oriental-style pictures and the terrace faces the Luxembourg Gardens, was "I heard that even Haaretz published an article identifying with the riots."
This remark, uttered with some vehemence, pretty much sums up the feelings of Finkielkraut - one of the most prominent (…)
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What sort of Frenchmen are they?
25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Blaming Islam Is Dishonest
21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Blaming Islam Is Dishonest Michael Coren November 19, 2005 Last week I wrote that the riots in France were more about the culture of 50 Cent than bin Laden and that to blame the violence solely on Islam was a gross misreading of the situation.
The neo-con web world had a fit, reminding me that when it comes to abuse and stupidity the right and the left are similarly gifted. In fact, neo-conservatives increasingly resemble the left in their simplistic and formulaic analyses and responses (…) -
A Great Miracle
17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Uri Avnery
"This is a well-known phenomenon in many countries: the most discriminated class of the ruling nation provides the most radical enemies of national minorities and foreigners in general. Those who are trampled-upon trample those beneath them. After being robbed of their self-esteem, they can regain some self-respect only by belonging to a "master race". Thus the poor whites in the United States. The same in France."
NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French cities (…) -
France : Riots Are a Class Act - And Often They’re the Only Alternative
17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentFrance now accepts the need for social justice. No petition, peaceful march or letter to an MP could have achieved this
by Gary Younge
’If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters ... Power concedes (…) -
Is Paris burning or Watt?
10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by William Bowles • Wednesday, 10 November 2005
"We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs and friendships of the time before life began. Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called (…) -
Web, mobiles help French plan riots
10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsYoung French rioters are using blogs to incite violence and mobile phones to organise attacks in guerrilla-like tactics they have copied from anti-globalisation protesters, security experts say.
So the government is policing cyberspace as well as rundown suburbs in the battle to end two weeks of rioting.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has diverted resources to monitoring blogs to anticipate the movements of the protesters, who have set fire to thousands of cars since the unrest (…) -
European Free Arts Sound Systems demonstration POSTPONED
9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Due to the recent riots in France, the Demonstration and the Teknival that were supposed to happen the 12th November 2005 in Strasbourg have been postponed !!!!!!
After receiving authorisation for both events we were told today to postpone them. This is based on the Emergency State that has been declared in France by the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac.
>> Restrictions on all kinds of events and on press freedom is possible:
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France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
12 commentsBy JOCELYN GECKER
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (…) -
Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
14 commentsSpreading Rampage in Country’s Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect
By Molly Moore
LE BLANC-MESNIL, France - Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the (…) -
PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsby Patrick Apel-Muller
Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (…)