I have just posted a new article on my website and I'm happy to send you a copy. Feel free to email me with any comments and I will do my best to reply Melanie Phillips In Greece, around two thirds of those who voted did so for extremist parties of left and right. Chillingly, the neo-Nazi "Golden Dawn" party won no fewer than 21 seats. As I write, Greece is in chaos, with fresh elections a distinct possibility if no party can form a government. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the EU, whose founding credo was to prevent fascism from ever again taking root in Europe, is now looking at a member state with a significant fascist element in its ruling body. Not only that, the EU itself precipitated this calamity. For the Greek debacle was a public spasm of fury against austerity measures imposed by Brussels and Berlin. The convulsions in Europe are throwing up some curious and disturbing parallels and alliances. In France, the left-wing Francois Hollande won on the very same anti-austerity platform as the neo-Nazis in Greece. Hollande says he is an "enemy of finance" - in effect making common cause with the far right, which identifies the Jews as controlling that financial world, which they agree with the left is a conspiracy against the interests of working people. Behind his victory, moreover, lies an alliance between Islamic radicals and the left. Writing before the election, French Jewish commentator Michel Gurfinkiel wrote that the French left had recast the proletariat as the "multitude", the West as "Empire" - and Jews as Zionists, the spearhead of counter-revolution. After the Toulouse atrocity, leftist and Muslim groups started organising rallies against racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, on the basis that the killer was a white neo-Nazi - only to drop all protests when his Muslim identity was established. A victory by Hollande, Gurfinkiel wrote, would accelerate the Islamisation of France and the destruction of its national identity. In Britain, relief at the defeat of Ken Livingstone must be tempered by the fact that, given his troubling views about Jews and cynical alliances with jihadis, Labour fielded him at all. Nor does his defeat erase the disturbing fact that a number of Jews on the left still supported him despite such a record. And, although some prominent members of the community in the end disowned him, many Jews on the left are turning a blind eye to the roots of Islamic radicalism and even vilifying those sounding the alarm about Muslim antisemitism and the Islamist threat to life and liberty. A few years ago, the French-Jewish leader Roger Cukierman identified an anti-Jewish "brown-red-green alliance" between ultra-nationalists, greens and communists. What these elections have revealed is an anti-Jewish brown-red-black continuum between the fascists, the left and the Islamists. So what follows? If the Greeks default and exit the eurozone it is likely to break apart, even if Hollande reins in his own austerity-busting growth programme. The results will not be pretty, the backwash will be extensive and as ever the Jews will be in peril from the instinct to lash out at convenient scapegoats. More French Jews will leave France. As the country went to the polls last Sunday, a staggering 5,000 attended a Jewish Agency aliyah fair in Paris. In Britain, there will be no such clarity. As the Jewish leadership sucks up to those in power who ignore the anti-Jewish venom in their ranks, and the Jewish left remains unchallenged over its unholy alliance, the community's collective head will remain buried in the sand while its rump is left horribly exposed for a kicking. France and Greece awakening old extremisms 
Monday, 14 May 2012
The article below is more evidence that the EU has spawned extremism, the same extremes we saw in the 20th century--to which we assigned the meaningless descriptors left and right, when in fact it was all the same and deserved the common descriptor totalitarianism.
The author says it was the EU's austerity measures that brought this about.
She is thereby magnanimously exculpating these nations, overlooking the fact that France and Greece brought about their own financial crises by spending too much and, additionally, in Greece's case, not collecting taxes owed.
The real sin of the EU was ignoring the will of the people and operating an illegitimate top-down government by stealth, promising things that could never materialize in the real world and would eventually, inevitably, produce generalized rage when things went awry as they must.
The EU experiment proved that nations are more than just veneer that can be stripped away.
They go deep into the grain. They cannot be squelched by force or by telling people that nationalism is dangerous and that faux intellectual dreamers advocating supranational government know best and can successfully squelch identities and produce a sense of togetherness with strangers and aliens.
Nations are an idea, a brooding sense of cohesion that exists independently of power politics and propaganda, and not on paper but in the hearts and minds of us all. In the end, the people do decide, and now, in their chaotic frame of mind, they are lashing out--albeit for all the wrong reasons, and underneath this chaos is a single mind that desperately seeks to restore nationhood.
That is what the author should have said.
But the article is a good start.
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Subject: Fwd: A French-Greek wake-up call
You can never say you have not been warned....V.
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