Is This Trip Really Necessary?

Every now and again I see a story that has me asking, "Is this really necessary?" Today is yet another fine mess eminating from that bastion of socialism and geo-political hypocrisy, France. This from www.jpost.com:

'French consider naming streets after Arafat
By MICHEL ZLOTOWSKI

Several French municipalities governed by communist and left-wing majorities are considering naming a street or a square after Yasser Arafat.'

Why don't the French just rename themselves "Anti-Semite Land" and call it a day. This is an absolute disgrace. It is a known (and should be well known) that Palestinian Arabs were willing partners in the Holocaust against the Jews in World War II.

This is a piece from the Anti-Demation League's website:

Another, more troubling approach to the Holocaust also exists in the Middle East. Hatred of Israel has led some Arabs to embrace Nazism itself, and to applaud its attempted genocide of the Jews. "[Give] thanks to Hitler," wrote columnist Ahmad Ragab recently in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Akhbar.1 "He took revenge on the Israelis in advance, on behalf of the Palestinians. Our one complaint against him was that his revenge was not complete enough." Nazi-style anti-Semitism has in fact had a long history in the Middle East, beginning as early as 1937, when Nazi leaders conducted propaganda campaigns in the region.

The Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, attempted to establish an alliance between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Arab nationalists, for the ultimate purpose of conducting a Holy War of Islam against "international Jewry." Several Nazi-influenced political parties arose in the Middle East in the 1930s and 1940s, some of which went on to play important roles in shaping the leadership of Arab nations in the post-World War II period. Egypt, Syria and Iran are widely believed to have harbored Nazi war criminals, though they do not admit doing so. Mein Kampf has been published and republished in Arabic since 1963. (http://www.adl.org/holocaust/denial_ME/hdme_genocide_denial.asp)

There's a reason why Bill O'Reilly is sponsoring a boycott against France. And there's an even bigger reason why American should never use France as a model for how American society should be constructed. Let Richard Belzer, Johnny Depp and Janeane Garofalo praise France all they want. In my opinion, when you praise France, you validate socialism and anti-semitism.

More on this subject in future posts.