Marine Le Pen interview on Russia Today
French Jews share all of these views.In Presidential elections, they very often vote according to the Party Leaders' statements and actions on Jewish and Israel questions. Both Sarkozy (who had a Jewish grandfather, and whose son Jean recently married a Jewish heiress) and DSK (who is Jewish, and vociferously Zionist) are generally popular with Jews, because of their openly pro-Jewish and pro-Israeli views. By way of contrast, Jews often disliked Chirac and de Gaulle because of their strong pro-Arab preferences. Indeed de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel. It lasted until last week, when Sarkozy's France decided to buy Eitan drones.
Most French Jews are Sefardi and traditionalist. Coming themselves from Arab countries, sceptical of Arab attitudes towards Israel, many strongly prefer pro-Zionist candidates. French Ashkenazim tend to be more assimilated and more varied in their politics. Jewish intellectuals, however, represent a gamut of “mainstream” views from right-wing philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy (a friend of both Sarkozy and DSK) to Socialists and Communists of various hues. None of the current Socialist candidates for the Presidency are widely known as judophile or pro-Israeli. Monsieur Sarkozy is so pro-Zionist that he even tells Arabs that he loves Israel.
Most French Jews appear at this stage, to be likely to vote for Sarkozy, once again.
kurupetos wrote:You're already in the list ol'boy. No need to verify your status.
supporttheunderdog wrote:As a state funded politically controlled entity I'd be cautious about anything journalistic put out by RT, and ask what is is in it for Russia.
The interview was clearly a staged event - a party political broadcast disguised as journalism with a tame interviewer feeding pre-planned questions so La Pen*s could give a pre-planned scripted answers, to accompany specially chosen film footage.
I'd like to see here put up against a proper interviewer like Frost, Day, Paxman, Humphries, Walden, etc, who know how to interview politicians properly and sometimes with devastating effect in getting to the bottom of their policies.
supporttheunderdog wrote:La Penis' interviewer's tongue was brown!
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