I can add some weight to Veronica Jordan's remarks...

Submitted by Homefront (Australia), Apr 22, 2007 at 23:08

Brooklynbob,

Historically Europe was never closer to the Middle East than when it went through its facist era. The Eurabia phenomena, if you read Bat Yeor's book of the same name, is the continuation of a DeGaul project the latter being a closet facist himself dedicated to reestablishing the Frankosphere as a counter weight to the Anglosphere (Britain, U.S. and Australia). He was willing to stake everything to achieve this goal and in the long term it seems France may lose everything.

A necessary measure in obtaining a temporary dar al suhlk type peace treaty appears to be the delegitimisation of Israel hence the provision of a common enemy. This looks alot like the poltical configuration of Europe during its facist era. America being a traditional enemy of fascism and the last bastion of Christianity is also a necessary target. Europe's complaint about America revolves more around what it is rather than what it does.

But in the end, yes, the European's are being punished but for the ambitions of their elites, who cut off from the rest of their societies have supplanted their own democracies generously given them by the U.S. at the end of the second world war and secured their indigenous residents' grandchildren futures something akin to serfdom if they remain Europe. I say serfdom because it seems to be a common condition in Islamic countries that professional classes are verbotem to infidels such as ourselves.

Perhaps also this is a warning against the evils of social democracy where the civil service exists not so much to protect and further the interests of the citizens but to perpetuate itself. Hostile migrants are not so much a problem to the elites as generally they are not the ones with their daughters getting raped.

Homefront.

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