J’Accuse: The World Needs to “Impose a Solution”—on France—for it Betrayal of French Jewry and the Values of French Civilization

Laurent Fabius

Laurent Fabius

According to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, “the world needs to impose a solution” on Israel to achieve Mideast peace.

Of course, he gave lip service to “Israel security” without any concrete suggestions for curbing Hamas’ genocidal campaign against the Jewish state.

He wants a two state solution—without any expression of concern that, unless the ultimate care is taken—this will result in multiple Hamastans that won’t need rockets, just mortars, to destroy Ben Gurion Airport from adjoining hilltops.

No doubt all will be well if the French Army—with its superb record defending the Maginot Line and in Indochina and Algeria—is put on the ground as peace keepers.

The world should indeed impose a solution—on France—whose own solution so far for large berserk mobs attempting to burn down eight Paris synagogues has been to plan to arrest the entire membership (just enough for a minyan) of the French Jewish Defense League.

Observers worry about the Jews being forced out of France. They ought to worry as much for French civilization as for the Jews. French Jews and French people of part-Jewish birth—from the Talmudist Rashi to the philosopher Montaigne to the humanitarian Adolphe Cremieux to the Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Francois Jacob to the social scientist Bernard-Henri Lévy to the painter Camille Pissarro to the composer Darius Milhaud to the actress Anouk Aimée. German culture hasn’t been quite the same since Hitler? What about French culture about cowards and hypocrites like Fabius?

And what has France given to its Jews in return for their contributions? The Vichy Regime? The Dreyfus Case? It was no coincidence that it took a lone Frenchman—Emile Zola shouting “J’Accuse”—to turn the tide for Dreyfus.

France for long has prided itself on its outward “mission civilatrice” to the world. Perhaps it needs to turn inward, before it begins dictating to the Jewish state, where Jewish survivors of Vichy’s betrayal still live, before dictating a suicidal peace on the embattled Jewish state.