Battle of Tours Last month, France cravenly voted in the UN Security Council for an Arab resolution to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a nation-state without a peace agreement with Israel. Today, an Islamist terror attack on a Parisian satiric magazine killed 10 journalists and two police. It was soon followed by another attack on a synagogue. The results of the Battle of Tours (732), in which Charles Martel killed an Umayyad Caliph and stopped the European advance of Islam, have been reversed.