On learning more about the French connection

So you thought did you, that the French Ambassador in London was uniquely undiplomatic in 2001, when he called Israel “that shitty little country”?  In fact, he was acting in the inimitable tradition of the Quai d’Orsai, the selective club of prejudiced clones at the French Foreign Office. The attitude of these cronies to Jews through two centuries (and latterly to Zionism and Israel) stemmed from the axiom devised during the French Revolution :  “To the Jews as a nation, nothing. To the Jew as an individual, everything”.

Because the whole cabal has shared that same outlook over an extended period, individuals needn’t be named and intermixed tenses hardly matter.

David Pryce-Jones’ book, ‘Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews’* overflows with the entrenched anti-semitism of the upper crust civil servants who direct the international affairs of ‘la belle France’. For 150 years, arising from their control of Arab North Africa, these guys have habitually characterised France as having a special vocation as  ‘une puissance musulmane’, a Moslem power, poised to cultivate Arabs and other Moslems; also it would seem, set to vilify Jews, people and nation.

In 1840, the French Consul in Damascus taught the Arabs how to revive the ‘blood libel’. As late as 1945, another diplomat maintained, that Jews had to have Christian blood for various of their rites. Jews were declared to be: anti-national, with other loyalties, serving only themselves, not France. They were described as a detested nursery of nihilists and agitators; a dirty and discomforting people, crazed with poverty and mysticism; leeches and lice with a human face; nurtured talmudically on the myth of Jerusalem. They were categorised as vengeful exploiters and Bolsheviks.  Massacre of the Jews would be ‘not a bad programme’. France would plan a solution  to liberate them from an obsession which had poisoned Europe. (Sounds as thou the French gave the Germans the idea that “Die Juden sind unser Unglűck”).

The Quai launched the Arab nationalist movement in 1913. They introduced the Protocols as factual: as a diabolic conspiracy to take over the World. Already controlling the Arabs of North Africa, denizens of the Quai went on to seek command of the eastern Mediterranean shore. They did not intend to tolerate the country of Christ becoming the prey of Jewry. The Jewish pioneers in Palestine practised ‘an alliance of earth and blood’. (Doesn’t that have a nice Nazi clang to it?) In 1934 the diplomats tried to convince their government that only a Franco-Islamic bloc (maybe, a ‘block’) could save the Holy Land. Jerusalem could not be left in the hands of a power unable to share.

The Jewish nose is like the beak of the German Eagle; again implying misplaced dis-loyalty. Everywhere newspapers are in the hands of the Jews. While the Vichy (read Nuremberg) laws were touted as protecting Jews, it was also acknowledged that they were to prevent Jewish racial characteristics endangering French politics and administration.

Post-war, the term, ‘the Israeli Gestapo’, came from one French consul. Israel is a stain upon the Arab world, as racist as the German persecutors. Israel’s Ambassador is the perfect prototype of a Nazi officer. Pompidou, President of France chose to declare, 37 years ago, that Israel must cease being “a racial and religious state”. In 1973 France negated the carefully constructed ambiguity of Resolution 242 of the 1967 Security Council, by inducing the European Union to agree, that Israel must withdraw (forget negotiations) from ALL – THE -  OCCUPIED territories. On this flimsy basis, Israel’s presence is labelled illegal.

I guess you’ve now seen enough examples whereby the Quai d’Orsay was the forge where anti-Israel, pro-Moslem epithets and resolutions were ‘forged’.

So let’s look at the favours conferred by ‘la République’ on certain notorious poisonalities. The head of Black September, fugitive Abu Daoud (Olympic ‘massacre-rer’) was reprieved in a French law court and smuggled out of Europe to Algeria. Arafat was salvaged out of Beirut in 1982, and assisted (ultra vires) into the U.N. where Jew-murdering members resolved that ‘Zionism is racism’. Chirac through his mutual admiration society welcomed Saddam Hussein to Paris to pick up Osirak, (Oh! Chirac!). France was mentor to Ayatollah Khomeini in exile, seeing in him ‘their golden Iranian opportunity’. Khomeini gave assurances that under him, Iran would be a free society; democratic with rights for all. Women too.  The French flew him into Teheran where he reneged, (as did Mahomet at Hudabaya and Arafat after Oslo). Recall the anti-British, anti-Jew actions by France, which saved the bacon of the violent escapee, Haj Amin, thirty years earlier.

What results or achievements can we credit to such zealous, slanderous, Frankish diplomacy, demonstrated by key (Quai) documents analysed by the author?
 
First, the propagandist inversions spilling from today’s Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas and Iran originated with the gnomes and envoys of the Quai d’Orsay. Entrenched Parisian concepts about Jews and Arabs were preconceived, ready and available for adoption by the PA, Hamas, Al Quai-da and Ach-Mad-in-a-Jihad of Iran. Goebbels and Madison Avenue weren’t required. Second, true to its illusion of itself as still a Great and Moslem Power, the policies of ‘la Grande France’ have brought violence to its own cities, led Europe astray, breached the Western Alliance, installed violent rogue regimes in the mid-East, bedevilled peace prospects, corrupted the U.N. and made the World a supremely dangerous planet.

Careful! Some folks might regard our summary as bigoted. Why single out France?  After all, Britain seems to be coming down with the French disease.

*New York, NY, ENCOUNTER BOOKS, 2006.