Det er ei velkjend sak at Le Pen stør Sharon - det er heilt logisk,
ettersom dei to politisk høyrer heime i den same tradisjonen.
Det er også velkjend at deler av det jødiske samfunnet i Frankrike
høyrer til på ytre høgre fløy. No står også tunge og symbolske
representantar for jødane i Frankrike fram og kastar tabua overbord,
liksom Jo Goldenberg til dømes.
Oddmund Garvik
http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story 020425175457925
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Some French Jews Reveal They Voted for Le Pen Last Sunday
Thursday, April 25 2002 @ 05:54 PM GMT
By Paul Michaud
PARIS: One of the pillars of the French Jewish establishment, Jo
Goldenberg, whose family runs the French capital's most celebrated
Jewish restaurant, Chez Goldenberg, has revealed that his vote in last
Sunday's first-round presidential elections did not go for either of the
two favored moderate candidates, Jacques Chirac or Lionel Jospin, but
for extreme right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Goldenberg's decision to make public his vote for a man, National Front
leader Le Pen, usually considered as anathema to French Jews, was
understandably criticized by many community leaders, including one who
said that "at his age Goldenberg should think of taking a long-deserved
rest," but his position may very well be symptomatic of a trend that's
become apparent in recent weeks in the French Jewish community.
For many French Jews, especially those who migrated to France from North
Africa - Le Pen is a blessing in disguise as his xenophobic declarations
of recent years have been aimed hardly at themselves, but almost
exclusively towards young Arabs and Muslims whose parents hark from the
Maghreb countries of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
They are considered by Le Pen and his electors as being largely
responsible for the crime wave that has unfurled over France the past
several months, and which has been the central issue of the presidential
campaign, a theme which Le Pen has promised to develop over the next two
weeks as he prepares for his final showdown with President Chirac on May
5.
Many French Jews hope that Le Pen, if ever he wins the presidency -
something considered highly unlikely, pollsters having accorded him at
most 20 percent of the vote - could do like US President George W Bush
and become a stalwart defender of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In large
part because of the support of the US religious right, 77 percent of
Americans recently told pollsters for Gallup/USA Today/CNN that in their
estimation the "real enemy" of the US was not Sharon but Yasser Arafat.
Le Pen, who is himself largely supported by the French religious right,
could very well end up, if ever he were elected, however unlikely, to
come out in favor of Sharon, a man against whom he has surprisingly
emitted little in the way of criticism in recent weeks, unlike President
Chirac who has repeatedly not only reaffirmed French support for Yasser
Arafat, but also condemned Prime Minister Sharon's incursions into
Palestine.
Le Pen has never attributed France's present social and economic
problems to members of the Jewish community, and it is this realization
that perhaps best explains the confused - indeed, subdued - reaction by
French Jews to Le Pen's second-place finish last Sunday.
Most of the anti-Le Pen invective that followed Sunday's vote has come
indeed from the French left, with marches against Le Pen that have taken
place throughout France in the past two days containing no known Jewish
organizations.
When spokesmen for the Jewish community have chosen to take a stand on
Le Pen, it has usually been quite muted. For example, the remark made by
Roger Cukierman, leader of Jewish defense organization CRIF, said simply
that "for us the choice was clear." Like other community spokesmen, he
did not come down strongly in any way against Le Pen.
Results from the Mediterranean coast, where Le Pen did best in Sunday's
first-round elections, would show that his perceived denunciation of
France's Muslim population as being responsible for the country's
parlous state was largely heeded by all categories of voters in that
part of France.
It is not for anything that Le Pen's National Front movement contains an
important contingent of French Jews who have taken the form of a
movement called "Jews for Le Pen". Most of them are dyed-in-the-wool
conservatives who see no problem with Le Pen.
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