<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976</id><updated>2011-04-21T14:20:09.092-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stop The Madness</title><subtitle type='html'>The French alternative</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>123</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-82093992</id><published>2002-09-25T07:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-25T07:00:25.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;RETOUR SUR IMPOSTURE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lire absolument, le &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pol_rep.php3?id_article=5031"&gt;recit &lt;/a&gt;de Jean-Marie Allafort, theologien catholique, du siege de la Nativité. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;On a parlé durant toute la crise de propagande israélienne, mais qui osera dire que certains responsables chrétiens ont fait de l'Eglise un agent quasi officiel de la propagande palestinienne ? Les Palestiniens ont cyniquement utilisé la Basilique de la Nativité pour servir leurs propres intérêts politiques et ont violé, bien plus que les Israéliens, la sainteté du Lieu. Ils ont pénétré de force dans l'enceinte de l'église et se sont conduits comme des soudards. Que l'Eglise les accueille est une chose, mais qu'elle inverse les rôles et contribue à une distorsion de la vérité en est une autre. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cet episode a revele a mes yeux la capacite de desinformation des medias francais et du Vatican et reste une source enorme de frustration: comment etre en colere contre mes compatriotes quand ils n'ont acces qu'a une couverture biaisee et grotesque de la situation au Proche-orient? Pourquoi Israel et la communaute juive ne tentent - elles pas de de contrer cette vague de desinformation et de mensonges en Europe comme elles le font si bien aux USA? Heuresement, Proche-orient.info fait de son mieux, mais est-ce assez?   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-82093992?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/82093992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/82093992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_22_archive.html#82093992' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81776481</id><published>2002-09-18T08:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-18T08:50:44.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PAPON LIBERE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un nouveau jour de honte pour la France: Maurice Papon, qui a envoye des millers de juifs francais vers les chambres a gaz a ete juge trop age pour sejourner en prison. Moins de 3 ans pour complicite de crime contre l'humanite. Je laisse la parole a Pascale Zonszain de ProcheOrient.com, dont le grand pere a fini ses jours a Auschwitz:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Parce qu'il est insupportable de lire les attendus de la décision de la Cour d'Appel de Paris, qui, dans la sécheresse de la langue juridique, énoncent des principes, que le même État de droit a sciemment refusés à 76.000 juifs. "Il n'existe aucun établissement pénitentiaire spécialisé susceptible d'accueillir des détenus en fin de vie". Et les 1.690 hommes, femmes, enfants, bébés, que Maurice Papon a livrés à la machine de mort nazie, n'étaient-ils pas des "détenus en fin de vie" ? "Le pronostic vital" du détenu Papon justifie l'élargissement d'un homme de 92 ans, nous dit la Cour d'Appel. Quel "pronostic vital" avaient tous ceux dont l'existence, l'avenir, l'espoir ont fini dans les cendres ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Comment peut-on accepter sans nausée qu'un complice de crimes contre l'humanité, devienne tout à coup un vieillard cardiaque qu'il faut laisser mourir en paix ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Quelle confiance peut-on accorder à un État qui demande pardon pour les crimes commis contre les juifs, mais qui libère leurs bourreaux ? Quelle assurance peut-on avoir que d'autres iniquités ne seront pas commises à l'avenir contre d'autres juifs, au nom des mêmes principes pervertis, au nom de prétendus "droits de l'homme" vidés de toute substance ? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81776481?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81776481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81776481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_archive.html#81776481' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81736601</id><published>2002-09-17T12:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-17T12:55:28.936-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;RELAXE REQUISE POUR HOUELLEBECQ&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le parquet a requis la relaxe dans le &lt;a href="http://www.figaro.net/france/20020917.FIG0014.html"&gt;proces &lt;/a&gt;de Michel Houellebecq, appele a comapraitre pour ses propos sur l'Islam (et non contre les musulmans comme ceux-cis voudraient nous faire croire). Un des propos reproches a Houellebecq:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;    «La religion la plus con, c'est quand même l'islam»&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aucun regret au tribunal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;   «je n'ai jamais manifesté le moindre mépris pour les musulmans, mais j'ai toujours autant de mépris pour l'islam».&lt;br /&gt;   «Il existe un discours convenu qui consiste à dire que les textes fondamentaux ne prêchent que la paix. Mais dans la réalité, les  &lt;br /&gt;    textes monothéistes ne prêchent ni la paix, ni l'amour, ni la tolérance: ce sont des textes de haine», &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81736601?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81736601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81736601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_archive.html#81736601' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81576447</id><published>2002-09-13T17:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-13T17:48:34.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;REVEL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roger-Pol Droit &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3260--290145-,00.html"&gt;presente &lt;/a&gt;dans &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; le dernier livre de l'academicien Jean-François Revel, &lt;i&gt;L'Obsession antiaméricaine&lt;/i&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;L'argument décisif du livre consiste à faire remarquer que c'est l'Europe, et elle seule, qui a produit les colonialismes du XIXe siècle, les guerres mondiales du XXe siècle, les totalitarismes nommés fascisme, nazisme, communisme. Jamais l'Amérique, soupçonnée par ses adversaires de n'être pas authentiquement démocratique, n'a engendré de telles dictatures. Deux conséquences principales en découlent. La prépondérance planétaire de l'Amérique, aujourd'hui, n'est pas simplement due à son activité propre. L'incurie et l'échec des autres puissances en sont aussi la cause. L'unilatéralisme qu'on reproche aux Etats-Unis résulte de la faiblesse de ses interlocuteurs. Deuxième conséquence : la principale fonction de l'antiaméricanisme, pour ceux qui le professent, est de leur éviter de regarder en face leurs propres responsabilités.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great stuff. Je l'ajoute a ma 'book list', a cote de &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195151747/qid=1031964260/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1_1/402-3853496-3242550"&gt;Six Days of War&lt;/a&gt; de Michael B. Oren&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://douzelunes.blogspot.com/"&gt;Douze Lunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81576447?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81576447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81576447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_08_archive.html#81576447' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81549163</id><published>2002-09-13T04:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-13T04:47:18.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;GET REAL, EUROPE!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Entre une Europe à la japonaise, à l'action tortueuse, l'influence indirecte et les résultats décevants, et une Europe à l'américaine qui trouve dans l'action décidée, directe et commune le volet manquant de sa propre construction, le choix devrait être facile.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great conclusion to an eye-opening &lt;a href="http://www.liberation.com/page.php?Article=52535"&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;by François Godement that I was surprised to find on the editorial page of the lefty Paris paper Liberation. Godement is afraid Europeans are so afraid of action and clear decisions that they may fall into diplomatic oblivion, as Japan did. I personnaly lost all hope for a tough and meaningful Europe after admiring the will to create such a bold union, cheering every step of the way as we got closer to integration until it led to nothing but military paralysis and wrong diplomatic "decisions" entirely based on criticism of Israel and the US.   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81549163?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81549163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81549163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_08_archive.html#81549163' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81548582</id><published>2002-09-13T04:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-13T04:16:37.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;FINAL TEST FOR THE UNITED NATIONS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush did the right thing yesterday by asking the UN to take responsabilty and act on its demands, constantly ignored by Iraq. Europeans criticized the US for its unilateralist ways and begged for the UN to be included in the decision. Now we'll see if the 'communite mondiale' can actually wake up and get serious, quit complaining about its impotence and deal with Saddam. If not, the US will have no choice but to go at it alone, as it originally planned. Maybe the US were too fast in dismissing the UN as an effective force, but I think everybody knows the UN won't do anything but slow down the process, making the West seem even weaker to the eyes of our enemies. After all the talk is over, the US will have lost precious amounts of time and Iraq will have readied for the attack. Things would be so much simpler if the US did not have to listen to all the background noise.   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81548582?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81548582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81548582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_08_archive.html#81548582' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81520062</id><published>2002-09-12T13:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-12T13:07:06.683-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CHRETIEN SCREWS UP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say I am a little relieved that Canada, and not France, had to put up with the embarassment of having its premier say &lt;a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=758F9920-A876-4A04-85AF-5B93736230F1"&gt;something &lt;/a&gt;really stupid and innapropriate on the anniversary of Sept. 11. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien has linked the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to perceived Western greed and arrogance and said the United States should not use its position as the world's only superpower to humiliate people in poorer nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview that aired last night on CBC-TV, the Prime Minister for the first time suggested the strikes against New York and Washington stemmed from a growing international anger at the way the United States flexes its muscle around the globe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for the others. That is what the Western world -- not only the Americans, the Western world -- has to realize. Because they are human beings too. There are long-term consequences," Mr. Chrétien said in the pre-taped interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And I do think that the Western world is getting too rich in relation to the poor world and necessarily will be looked upon as being arrogant and self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. The 11th of September is an occasion for me to realize it even more."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead, Jacques Chirac was very good, assuring that the ``French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people.'' &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81520062?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81520062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81520062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_08_archive.html#81520062' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-81211362</id><published>2002-09-05T17:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-09-05T17:07:12.610-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>MORE ABOUT ''11'09''01'':&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Another controversial segment is by Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who attacks U.S. foreign policy and features the ghost of a handsome U.S. Marine killed in a terrorist attack in Lebanon in 1983. Chahine lectures the dead Marine on the destruction that U.S. meddling in the world has wrought - from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the current Middle East conflict. The ghost is grateful for being enlightened."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perfect for remembering, indeed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-81211362?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81211362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/81211362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_archive.html#81211362' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-80540440</id><published>2002-08-21T15:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-21T15:08:47.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;REMEMBERING 9/11... THE FRENCH WAY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200208210257000220325_aolns.src"&gt;PARIS (Variety) - To commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, a French studio is unveiling an unusual omnibus movie called "11'09"01 September 11," which consists of 11 separate submissions from key directors in as many countries.&lt;br /&gt;The problem: Several of the segments are stridently anti-American.&lt;br /&gt;Consider the dialogue from the Egyptian submission directed by Youssef Chahine.&lt;br /&gt;"The U.S. and Israel are democracies, their governments are elected by their people -- thus it is legitimate to attack their people," says the character, an unnamed filmmaker.&lt;br /&gt;The segment goes on to talk about "the civilizations destroyed by the U.S.," and "the millions of victims" of American policy from Vietnam to Somalia.&lt;br /&gt;The short also depicts with sympathy a Palestinian suicide bomber and his family.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, what else would you expect from Iranian, Egyptian and lefty European filmmakers for whom 9/11 was simply about getting back at the US for all the wrongs they may have caused?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-80540440?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80540440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80540440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_08_18_archive.html#80540440' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-80453016</id><published>2002-08-19T18:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-19T18:00:33.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;FINKIELKRAUT SEUL CONTRE TOUS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grand merci a Mangeclous pour avoir mis en ligne &lt;a href="http://www.mangeclous.net/finkielk1.htm"&gt;l'interview &lt;/a&gt;du grand intellectuel avec Elizabeth Levy. A lire absolument, en essayant de ne pas trop s'enerver des questions de Levy, qui a apparemment subi le lavage de cerveau a la Rony Brauman. Finkielkraut me semble aujourd'hui etre la seule voix raisonnable et mesuree au sujet d'Israel et j'admire sa resistance passionee face a l'acharnement contre lui dont fait part la majorite de l'intelligentsia francaise. J'avais bien aime Levy quand elle etait passee chez Thierry Ardisson et Franz-Olivier Gisbert. Tant pis. Une desillusion de plus.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-80453016?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80453016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80453016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_08_18_archive.html#80453016' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-80452478</id><published>2002-08-19T17:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-19T17:43:35.386-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PARESSE INTELLECTUELLE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michel Wievorka signe un brouillon dans Liberation ( &lt;a href="http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=46928"&gt;"La tentation autoritaire des Etats-Unis"&lt;/a&gt; ) ou il parvient a melanger Guantanamo, Enron, Fukuyama, Saddam, l'Eglise Catholique, Isarel et bin Laden en quelques lignes dans une succesion de cliches et de raccourcis en ecorchant au passage le nom de Martha Stewart ('Stuart'). Bravo! Surement a mettre sur le soleil d'aout. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-80452478?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80452478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/80452478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_08_18_archive.html#80452478' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79909390</id><published>2002-08-06T15:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-06T15:17:43.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;RUMSFELD ON THE MIDEAST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asked about where he stood on the Mideast crisis, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, usually silent about the situation since it does not (unfortunately) involve U.S. troops, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50320-2002Aug6.html"&gt;reminded &lt;/a&gt;us of a plain and simple fact that most Europeans seem to have forgotten.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My feelings about the so-called occupied territories are that there was a war," Rumsfeld said. "Israel urged neighboring countries not to get involved in it once it started. They all jumped in and they lost a lot of real estate to Israel because Israel prevailed in the conflict."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The simple truth, and a great example of logic and sense.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79909390?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79909390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79909390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_08_04_archive.html#79909390' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79867409</id><published>2002-08-05T17:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-05T17:31:54.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;C'MON, DO SOMETHING!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andre from &lt;a href="http://www.mideast-truth.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Middle East Realities'&lt;/a&gt; says: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Isn't it time for Israel to say "to hell with the world opinion"? When Israel doesn't react, more violence happens and goes unpunished. When Israel reacts, it gets condemned regardless of what it does. So it is time for Israel to give the IDF the green light to solve the Palestinian terror problem once and for all.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exactly. How long is Israel supposed to take all this horror? How long can we stand there watching all these cowards and their lobotomized kids scream their joy in the streets of Gaza City everytime more innocents are massacred? It's only going to get worse as Sharon hesitates to move. With the U.S. Congress and opinion firmly on your side, you can tell Europe to go to hell and actually take the steps to end the massacre. Don't be afraid of taking it 'too far' because any response is 'too far' for Europeans. Don't listen to what the world may say, just do what is necessary to preserve your life. French journalists always feel obligated to add 'the peace process needs to resume' after annoucing that students or little girls have been blown to pieces by a bomb, and always look at Israel as if saying 'it's your fault'. That is just ridiculous. How can you have peace when one side has crossed every single limit and has imposed a culture of murder and chaos to a whole generation? The Palestinians want nothing to do with a 'peace process' so what is the point of waiting until they get tired of killing? This did not work with Hitler, it's not going to work with them. The only way out of this is an all-out war (that the Palestinians have already started) to make them understand Israel is there to stay. Maybe then the Palestinians will get on with actually building something constructive and ask themselves 'Were we stupid, or what'?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79867409?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79867409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79867409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_08_04_archive.html#79867409' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79771827</id><published>2002-08-03T06:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-03T06:12:33.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;GET REAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt;, Arno Klarsfeld veut &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--286533-,00.html"&gt;calmer &lt;/a&gt;les esprits en rappelant qu' Israel ne prend encore que des mesures bien timides pour faire face a la guerre lance par les terroristes palestiniens, a cote des reactions habituelles des grandes puissances europeennes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;i&gt; La France dispose d'une force de dissuasion nucléaire, c'est-à-dire qu'elle estime que, si un Etat utilise l'arme nucléaire contre la France ou peut-être menace son territoire, comme cela pouvait être le cas avec l'URSS, elle se dit ou se disait prête à répondre à la barbarie par la barbarie. &lt;b&gt;Javier Solana, qui a condamné l'élimination du leader militaire du Hamas, était secrétaire général de l'OTAN durant les bombardements dans l'ex-Yougoslavie qui ont tué des centaines d'innocents&lt;/b&gt;. A l'époque, pourtant, il approuvait ces bombardements massifs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Israël est un des rares pays qui ne répondent pas à la barbarie par la barbarie, sinon le seul&lt;/b&gt;. Qui est là pour le reconnaître ? Personne. Mais une grande partie des pays, et en particulier ceux qui ont toujours répondu à la barbarie par la barbarie, sont présents pour dénoncer des mesures d'autodéfense qu'on devrait porter au crédit du peuple israélien. Certains diront : "Quelle différence entre le bombardement de Gaza et les attentats des kamikazes ?" Au niveau du résultat, aucune. Des enfants meurent des deux côtés. Mais quelle est cette logique stupide qui fait disparaître l'intention de l'acte ? Est-ce la même chose de vouloir exterminer le plus de juifs possible et de vouloir faire disparaître celui qui organise ces crimes contre l'humanité commis presque chaque jour en Israël ?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme le dit Klarsfeld, nous europeens sommes si "habitués à considérer les juifs comme des victimes passives" que le simple fait que les Israeliens ne se plient pas a une volonte exterieure (palestinienne ou europenne) et decide de se defendre et de preserver le dur travail de ces cinquante dernieres annees choque.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79771827?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79771827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79771827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_28_archive.html#79771827' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79711151</id><published>2002-08-01T17:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-08-01T17:35:43.330-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA NOBLESSE DU SALE BOULOT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3210--286338-,00.html"&gt;interviewe &lt;/a&gt;un des volontaires de ZAKA, les volontaires religieux qui 'nettoient' apres un attentat palestinien: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;i&gt;"Selon la loi juive, les corps doivent être enterrés dans leur intégralité, explique Schlomo. Il faut aussi éviter que des morceaux de corps soient inhumés avec une personne à qui ils n'appartiennent pas. C'est une question de respect et de dignité humaine." Pour observer au plus près cette tradition, les hommes de ZAKA procèdent donc au ramassage systématique des morceaux de chair humaine et participent à leur identification, grâce notamment aux tests ADN. "Ailleurs dans le monde, les pompiers ramassent les morceaux de corps les plus importants et passent ensuite le jet d'eau, poursuit Schlomo. Ici, il arrive que des débris de voiture ou de bus imbriqués avec de la chair soient enterrés avec le corps."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après chaque intervention les hommes se retrouvent. "On discute beaucoup entre nous car il n'y a pas grand monde qui ait envie d'entendre parler de nos histoires de mains, de foie ou de corps sans tête. On essaye même de manger et de boire quelque chose." Après une scène de carnage, il leur faut toutefois plusieurs jours avant de pouvoir à nouveau sentir l'odeur de la viande ou du brûlé. "On a tous nos hantises", confie Schlomo, les yeux dans le vague. Lui, comme beaucoup, craint toujours de reconnaître quelqu'un parmi les victimes. D'autres ne supportent plus de découvrir dans le journal du lendemain le visage souriant d'une personne qu'ils ont vue mourir ou dont ils ont ramassé le corps en miettes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les pompiers de New York ont passe des mois a faire ce travail horrible. Les israeliens le font toutes les semaines depuis deux ans. J'espere que l'Europe sera encore longtemps epargnee par la terreur islamiste. Notre si belle innocence en prendrait un serieux coup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: Desole pour l'absence d'accents. J'ecris desormais sur un notebook DELL que j'ai achete aux USA et j'ai la flemme de le reconfigurer a chaque fois en clavier francais. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79711151?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79711151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79711151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_28_archive.html#79711151' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79199690</id><published>2002-07-20T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-20T15:38:58.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;GIMME BACK MY ROCK!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Parsley Island issue has been &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2141000/2141431.stm"&gt;resolved&lt;/a&gt;. The rocky and uninhabited island will be off-limits to Moroccoan and Spanish soldiers and flags. And guess who put an end to the insanity over this thing? The United States indeed brokered a deal to satisfy both sides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From BBC News:&lt;br /&gt;"The breakthrough in the dispute followed intense US mediation efforts after the two sides refused to negotiate directly."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Complain all you want about the U.S. playing big brother everywhere in the world. But when two countries go as low as to trigger a dispute that serious out of a piece of rock that is only "visited by herdsmen who take their goats to graze", it makes you wonder what the world would be like without the cooler heads from across the Atlantic. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79199690?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79199690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79199690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_archive.html#79199690' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79150016</id><published>2002-07-19T07:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-19T07:29:02.983-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;HATING THE FRENCH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always appreciate a good French-hate site. I find &lt;a href="http://www.fuckfrance.com/"&gt;F***France.com&lt;/a&gt; too low and childish as it constantly goes for insulting exagerrations. But &lt;a href="http://www.mideast-truth.blogspot.com/"&gt;Middle East Realities&lt;/a&gt; pointed me to &lt;a href="http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/hotflash020717.htm"&gt;FranceWatch&lt;/a&gt;, which is hosted on the &lt;i&gt;American Enterprise&lt;/i&gt; site. This one is funny and inventive. For example, they claim that France is responsible for "just about every recent war" and make a list, including:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;World War II: After Germany rolls over France's pathetically under-prepared army, France rolls over on its back for its new occupiers, handing over Jews by the boxcar-load while shamelessly opening her wine cellars to the Hun.  After the war is won by the Americans and British, most of the French population claim they were heroes in La Resistance.  (Side effect: Resultant angst produces stupid philosophies such as existentialism.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Middle East: Still filled with shame at their collaborationist ways in WWII, and possessing an anti-Semitic streak, French intellectuals decide that bloodthirsty Arab dictators who murder children and women in their beds are the obvious moral superiors of Israelis and proceed to stuff container ships full of money and send them to the Palestinian Authority, which uses the cash to buy Semtex, grenades, and baby wipes.  (Side effect: Arabs hate us instead of hating France.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79150016?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79150016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79150016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_archive.html#79150016' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-79125347</id><published>2002-07-18T16:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-18T16:26:05.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BOOKMARK MATERIAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to bloggin', with a nice link for all you looking more reasoned voices from Europe: read &lt;a href="http://www.innocentsabroad.blogspot.com/"&gt;Innocents Abroad&lt;/a&gt;, a new blog from Geneva with European and American contributors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quote: "There is a great deal of irony in the spectacle of the EU Commissioner for External Relations expressing disappointment with the US for failing to sign up to the ICC. The promotion and advancement of humanitarian values is often cited as a key EU focus by Europe’s political and media elite. Europe’s bureaucrats and opinion makers constantly deride the horrors of war while espousing the sanctity of humanity. But when it comes to enforcing these values, it’s not the Europeans in the forefront, because, in military terms, Europe is at best a second-tier player. The EU folk love to strut their humanitarian moralism, but it’s this same moralism that undermines the militaristic virtues needed to defend morality. In short, Europe is unable to transfer its morality into power."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Way to go!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-79125347?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79125347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/79125347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_archive.html#79125347' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78732847</id><published>2002-07-09T08:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-09T08:12:37.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A CHURCH-GOING UNDERCLASS IN THE LAND OF MAI 68?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another great &lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/435tebxi.asp"&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;by Christopher Caldwell in the &lt;i&gt;Weekly Standard&lt;/i&gt; on Islam in France. The author does not bash French Muslims but exposes the dynamics and contradictions a frenchified Islam, torn between adapting to the secular French society and sticking to the fighting words of the imams. The article concludes that the big question is whether the French constitutional model (that does not leave any legitimate role to religion in public life) can sustain the sudden revival of religious claims made by Muslims of all sides.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mickey Kaus of &lt;i&gt;Slate&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067837"&gt;adds &lt;/a&gt;some interesting points, in a much different, more incriminating, mode, and points to the similarities with a problem America has known for decades:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"1) Caldwell makes it clear why it's not crazy or racist for French voters to conclude (as 63 percent concluded in one poll two years ago) that there are "too many Arabs" in the country. Islam, unlike Catholicism, Judaism, etc, has "confounded every governmental attempt to assimiliate it into Frances' sternly secular order;" &lt;br /&gt;2) Caldwell offers yet more evidence of the connection between welfare and terrorism -- French welfare subsidizes a macho Arab ghetto culture that supplies Islamic fundamentalism with angry young men; &lt;br /&gt;3) Saudi Arabia subsidizes the most important Muslim organization, extreme in its religious conservatism; &lt;br /&gt;4) "Of the country's 230 major imams, none is French." &lt;br /&gt;5) France is following America's steps in dealing with it's underclass, as predicted by political scientist Larry Mead. The French have just discovered affirmative action, for example....Caldwell doesn't offer much of a solution, and seems to argue that France's secular order, in which religion is kicked out of the "public square," is vulnerable because it can't be defended with the same ardor as America's version of church/state separation, in which public life is permeated by religion."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78732847?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78732847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78732847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_07_archive.html#78732847' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78702812</id><published>2002-07-08T15:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-08T15:13:05.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;AIR FRANCE SCREWS UP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ProcheOrient.info &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pol_der_heure.php3?id_article=2699"&gt;reports &lt;/a&gt;that on July 5, upon landing in Israel, the pilot of AF 1192 said "Bienvenue en Palestine" over the public adress system. Outraged passengers attempted to have a talk with him but he locked himself up in the cabin. The passengers then entered Ben Gourion airport and filed a complaint with the police. Air France spokespersons are trying to downplay the incident, saying the Israelis are too sensitive while The Israeli Transportation Minister has asked AF officials for explanations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78702812?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78702812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78702812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_07_archive.html#78702812' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78679137</id><published>2002-07-08T01:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-08T01:28:40.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CHASSEZ L'INTRUS: MEDIAS-FRANCAIS-SERIEUX&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je rêve qu'un jour, les médias français cesseront de lancer des mots lourds de sens comme s'il s'agissait de simple ponctuation. Je pense particulièrement à des termes comme "retour à l'ordre moral" quand on interdit aux gens de se promener en maillot de bain hors des plages (France 2). "Politique sécuritaire" quand le gouvernement met fin à l'impunité des délinquants mineurs ou pire, "tout répressif" quand on annonce la construction d'une prison. Une autre perle: "l'Amérique puritaine", tel quel, au milieu d'un texte par ailleurs centré sur des faits (France Info). Très fréquent aussi: "psychose" pour qualifier la crainte légitime des américains face à de nouveaux attentats plus que probables. Ces expressions ont leur place: dans les pages Opinion. Le problème est que ces exagérations et facilités de langage (naturellement toujours connotées à gauche) s'insinuent partout. Beaucoup d'américains se plaignent de ne plus pouvoir distinguer les papiers factuels et les papiers de commentaire dans la presse. Les conservateurs dénoncent le biais pro-libéral dans les médias (je pense au dernier livre d'Ann Coulter). Ils devraient venir ici lire &lt;i&gt;Libération&lt;/i&gt;, écouter France Info ou regarder nos infos et se dire qu'ils ont bel et bien les médias les plus équilibrés et les plus déontologiques. Je sais qu'il est difficile de demander aux français de faire preuve d'un peu plus de professionnalisme, mais l'information a un tel poids dans notre perception du monde qu'on devrait la déclarer 'exception culturelle' afin qu'elle puisse échapper à la paresse des esprits.   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78679137?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78679137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78679137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_07_07_archive.html#78679137' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78630879</id><published>2002-07-06T16:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-06T17:02:55.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A BULLY AT YOUR SERVICE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very good &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/06/weekinreview/07dao.html"&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;by James Dao in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; that reminds us that the U.S. spends more on Defense, about $400 billion, than the next 15 largest militaries combined. Since the U.S. is the only country with the will to take care of the whole western world (althought, of course, it puts its interests first, but who would deny that we share the same interests?), Europe has taken the role of the nice guy, who gives away money and advice, without ever getting tough. For that reason, the U.S. can not be asked to constantly consult with us Europeans just for the sake of it. We can not count on them and blame them at the same time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few lines from Dao's article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Today, the United States has no rival in any critical dimension of power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That disparity, says Robert Kagan, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who lives in Brussels, has caused Europe and many other nations to depend increasingly on American power for their security and prosperity. As a result, Mr. Kagan asserts, &lt;b&gt;the United States must remain free to use its power at will, lest the world fall prey to lawlessness and brutality&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States must sometimes play by the rules of a Hobbesian world, even though in doing so it violates European norms," Mr. Kagan wrote in the June-July edition of Policy Review. "And it must sometimes act unilaterally, not out of a passion for unilateralism but, given a weak Europe that has moved beyond power, because the United States has no choice but to act unilaterally."  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78630879?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78630879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78630879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78630879' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78626970</id><published>2002-07-06T14:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-06T14:25:09.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;SEQUEL TIME&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, &lt;i&gt;Men In Black II&lt;/i&gt; is to the 1997 original what &lt;i&gt;Austin Powers 2&lt;/i&gt; was to the first. Roger Ebert &lt;a href="http://suntimes.com/output/ebert1/cst-ftr-men03.html"&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The astonishing success of the original "MiB" was partly because it was fun, partly because it was unexpected. We'd never seen anything like it, while with "MiBII," we've seen something exactly like it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Austin Powers 2&lt;/i&gt;, while being a shameless copy of the first, grossed an obscene amount of money, probably because a lot of people had missed the original and wanted to see what this was all about. Everybody has already seen &lt;i&gt;MIB&lt;/i&gt;, so hopefully the poor word of mouth will keep people from seeing &lt;i&gt;MIB II&lt;/i&gt;. But it is so hot in the U.S. right now, people will do anything to stay indoors, so you never know.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have not seen &lt;i&gt;Minority Report&lt;/i&gt;, go see that instead. Great movie! And if, like me, you are in France and it has not opened yet, there is a great version on Kazaa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78626970?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78626970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78626970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78626970' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78523584</id><published>2002-07-03T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-03T14:25:39.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;HYSTERIE COLLECTIVE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sidérant, l'acharnement des français dans leur haine collective de Jean-Marie Messier. Soudainement, des gens qui ne savent rien du monde des affaires se mettent à prier pour qu'il lui arrive les pires choses du monde. Pourquoi? Vivendi Universal ne leur a rien fait, ils n'ont pas d'actions VU. Non, ils ont trouvé un gagnant, apôtre de la globalisation et du libre échange, sympathique et souriant puis ils se sont rapellé qu'il est français, et qu'en France, la réussite est suspecte et qu'on sympathise avec ceux qui n'y arrivent pas. Messier serait un traître car il s'est adapté à la vie dans les cercles de la haute finance. On stigmatise le fait qu'il ait acheté un appartement à Manhattan... Messier est l'exemple du courageux français qui à force de travail et d'idées cohérentes et innovantes a fait de son entreprise un conglomérat mondial, profitable (bien plus que AOL Time Warner) et créateur d'emploi. Au lieu de l'encenser, on en fait une brebis galeuse. C'est non seulement ridicule mais regrettable car avec lui, c'est un exemple de la réussite française qui tombe et une opportunité pour d'autres managers français de le suivre qui est compromise. Quand un peuple veut rester médiocre, il n'y a pas de meilleure façon que d'attaquer ses figures de proue.                &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78523584?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78523584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78523584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78523584' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78440063</id><published>2002-07-01T17:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-01T17:30:25.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ESPECE DE LIBERAL!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.figaro.net/opinion/20020701.FIG0026.html"&gt;Editorial passionné&lt;/a&gt; de Maurice Druon de l'Académie française dans &lt;i&gt;Le Figaro&lt;/i&gt; en défense du terme 'libéral' que la gauche déchue est en train de trainer dans la boue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La gauche française, afin de se venger de son échec électoral consécutif à son inaptitude à gouverner, vient de se saisir du terme, l'un des plus honorables de notre langue, pour inverser sa signification et lui donner un sens péjoratif. Sous peu, il deviendra une insulte.&lt;br /&gt;Envisage-t-on de prendre une mesure indispensable, réparatrice des méfaits de nos banqueroutiers d'hier ? « Dérive libérale », entend-on dans leurs bouches.&lt;br /&gt;Veut-on soulager un peu les charges fiscales qui pèsent sur la moitié des Français, desserrer l'incroyable maillage de règlements et de contraintes qui les entrave tous à tout instant et en tous actes de leur vie ? « Déviation libérale. »&lt;br /&gt;Désigner un homme comme un libéral voudra bientôt dire qu'il est un sinistre réactionnaire. Et une loi libérale équivaudra à une loi scélérate.&lt;br /&gt;De grâce, qu'on se reprenne ! Libéral est formé sur la même racine que liberté. Elle les gêne tellement, les gauchistes, la liberté ? (...)&lt;br /&gt;La gauche, qui s'en veut et en veut au monde entier de son échec, durcit ses positions. Elle cède au trotskisme dont elle est infiltrée, et recourt à la vieille méthode marxiste qui consiste à déshonorer les mots pour déshonorer les idées qu'ils représentent. Dévoyer le vocabulaire est une spécialité des communistes ; ils ont abusé les peuples pendant soixante-dix ans avec ce procédé-là et, manifestement, ils n'en ont pas fini.&lt;br /&gt;Voilà libéralisme devenu vicieux, honteux, exécrable, les lois libérales funestes et antidémocratiques, et les libéraux eux-mêmes des gens dangereux et méprisables. Les libertés, la liberté, ne tarderont pas à paraître suspects. Le totalitarisme vaut tellement mieux !"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note to English-speaking reader: the term 'libéral' in French means the exact opposite of 'liberal' in English. A French libéral is against big governement and in favor of free entrepreneurship. The term only applies to economic policies.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78440063?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78440063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78440063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78440063' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78431325</id><published>2002-07-01T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-01T13:21:09.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA GAUCHE ET LES ISLAMO-FASCISTES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Joseph Cohen et Raphaël Zagury-Orly, philosophes, se demandent comme la gauche française a pu s'allier aux ennemis de l'Occident et aux terroristes palestiniens dans &lt;i&gt;Les Temps Modernes&lt;/i&gt;, la revue de Claude Lanzmann. Un &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pdv.php3"&gt;texte &lt;/a&gt;passionant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Qu'il nous soit permis ici de sonder la formidable symbiose qui conduit à marcher main dans la main des activistes en apparence aussi radicalement éloignés que des Verts et des islamistes, des communistes, des tiers-mondistes et des fondamentalistes, des anti-mondialistes et des femmes voilées, des militants du MRAP et des nationalistes arabes. Qu'il nous soit permis de nous étonner du fait que la gauche de la gauche (supposément laïque, sécularisée et progressiste) coexiste si harmonieusement avec des positions si explicitement anti-démocratiques, autoritaristes, militaristes.&lt;br /&gt;   Mais cette contradiction n'est sans doute qu'apparente. Que nos intellectuels éclairés ou nos militants " progressistes " soient si prompts à cautionner ces positions, c'est significatif d'une convergence de l'idéal révolutionnaire et de la logique sacrificielle dans une même nostalgie de l'ordre religieux et dans un même rejet des limites qu'impose la démocratie. A cet égard, Israël, en tant qu'il incarne le travail, difficile et inachevé, de conjonction de la sécularisation de l'Etat-nation et de l'économie libérale, serait la représentation quasi-parfaite de cet Occident rejeté de part et d'autre. A la réflexion, la proximité entre ces appartenances en apparence irréconciliables s'explique en effet. &lt;b&gt;Il y va d'une nostalgie commune pour un récit héroïque, pour un flamboyant idéal révolutionnaire, et ce aux dépens de la démocratie. &lt;/b&gt;Arlette Laguiller, Noir Désir, les Motivés, José Bové circulent aujourd'hui avec une effarante allégresse entre le discours contre la mondialisation, contre l'Amérique et ce qui apparaît comme son prolongement naturel, le discours contre Israël, peuple, nation, religion, civilisation, toutes dimensions confondues. (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;À bien l'examiner, le discours anti-israélien se fonde sur l'idée perverse que le terroriste n'en est pas un car il est avant tout un résistant face à un occupant étranger parachuté dans la région après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Appelé à son tour à reproduire l'histoire, l'Israélien permettrait enfin de réaliser l' inversion du schéma devenu si pesant pour une certaine conscience occidentale de plus en plus marquée par une idéologie de gauche : le schéma du Juif victime de l'occupant nazi."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78431325?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78431325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78431325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78431325' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78427703</id><published>2002-07-01T11:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-07-01T13:20:22.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;GLOBAL JUSTICE?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The International Criminal Court was &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7724-2002Jul1.html"&gt;born &lt;/a&gt;today. The world's first permanent war crimes court holds great promises and, on paper, is a fantastic step towards a less violent world. But as Le Monde &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--283129-,00.html"&gt;points out&lt;/a&gt;, right before endorsing the opposite, optimistic view, there is serious risk this great project could turn into a politicized creature in a hands of West-hating, anti-American and anti-Israel judges (&lt;i&gt;l'utopie et l'angélisme dangereux d'une démarche qui, ignorant la réalité de la vie internationale, sous-estime un risque majeur : l'exploitation et la manipulation politiques auxquelles la CPI peut se prêter&lt;/i&gt;). The ICC is a European creation and the US, Israel, Russia and China oppose it. This is understandable knowing how fast European diplomats jump at conclusions when it comes to Israeli and American policies. Just remember the big Jenin affair: the Palestinians were claiming 600 dead in the Israeli intervention, Europeans immediately bought it and threatened Israel with an investigation. Words like 'Genocide' were used, in all seriousness, to describe what nobody had seen. When the smoke cleared, even the Palestinians admitted there were less than 60 dead, mostly armed gunmen and known terrorists. The European Union recently conceded there had never been a 'genocide' in Jenin, but few paid attention. The fears that the ICC could turn into a tool against the legitimate reaction of democracies against their attackers are legitimate and can not be dismissed as paranoïa.          &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78427703?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78427703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78427703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_30_archive.html#78427703' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78150596</id><published>2002-06-24T15:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-24T15:17:47.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA PHRASE DU MOIS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mère de Zacarias Moussaoui &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--282063-,00.html"&gt;ne comprend pas&lt;/a&gt; comment son fils a développé une telle haine de l'Amérique (il a déclaré devant le tribunal "prier pour la destruction des Etats-Unis"): &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Je ne comprends pas, quand il était jeune il adorait les films américains et portait toujours des vêtements de style américain." &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78150596?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78150596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78150596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_23_archive.html#78150596' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78129195</id><published>2002-06-24T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-24T05:36:23.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BIAS &amp; DAMAGE CONTROL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is CNN trying to make up for Ted Turner's comments (accusing Israel of terror)? Looks like it if you check out today's homepage on CNN.com. Usually, they stick to breaking news and simply have links to the dossiers and "in-depth" analysis at the bottom of a news story. This time, the main headline is "Israel's enormous toll" and the first sentence introduces us to a kind of writing rarely seen on CNN.com:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"If you went to a baseball game tonight, and looked around, you would see about 25,000 other fans. If you were living in Israel, one of you would likely be killed in a terrorist attack in the next six months."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story tells the horrorific story of Pnina Eisenman, who lost her mother and daughter and was badly injured in a suicide bombing. It's a very moving story but also an obvious attempt to repair the reputation of CNN, who is criticized in Israel for giving more airtime to the families of suicide bombers than the families of the victims. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here in France, the media is blatantly critical of the Israelis (and does not apologize for it) There is growing concern over this trend: see &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xhome.php3"&gt;ProcheOrient.info&lt;/a&gt;, a fantastic website attempting to provide unbiased information in French about the Middle-East. But 'old media' is not used to listening to complainers, advertisers don't have any influence and so it continues. The French youth adopt an attitude of defiance and opposition to the Israelis because of this concensus in the press that systematically implies that both Israelis and Palestnians are responsible for the tragedy. I realize CNN, network TV and major newspapers in the US are criticized for the same reasons but here we have virtually no commentators, pundits or talk radio hosts of national stature who will counter this trend on a daily basis. That's why I stopped relying on the French media for information on the conflict, except of course &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xhome.php3"&gt;ProcheOrient.info&lt;/a&gt;!  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78129195?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78129195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78129195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_23_archive.html#78129195' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78094377</id><published>2002-06-23T06:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-23T06:28:58.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;THE RAGE AND THE PRIDE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai enfin acheté le livre d'Oriana Fallaci, &lt;i&gt;La Rage et l'Orgueil&lt;/i&gt;. Le seul effet du procès intenté par le MRAP aura été une publicité immense: Le livre est #1 sur Amazon.fr. Mes commentaires dès que je l'aurai fini et digéré.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78094377?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78094377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78094377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_23_archive.html#78094377' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78043993</id><published>2002-06-21T15:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-21T15:45:11.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BLAMING THE VICTIM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un certain nombre d'universitaires européens ont récemment demandé à l'UE de suspendre les accords de coopération avec Israel...au moment ou Israel à le plus besoin du soutien de l'Occident. Dans &lt;i&gt;Le Figaro&lt;/i&gt;, Philippe Gabriel Steg, un autre universitaire, montre toutes les &lt;a href="http://www.figaro.net/opinion/20020620.FIG0109.html"&gt;contradictions &lt;/a&gt;de cette pensée qui ferait d'Israel le responsable de l'absence actuelle de négociations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Comment ne pas être frappé que, dans la droite ligne de l'esprit qui régnait à la conférence de Durban, le seul État du monde que l'on veuille boycotter soit l'Etat d'Israël ? Pas de boycott pour l'Autorité palestinienne, qui utilise les crédits européens pour une propagande de haine et de violence. Pas de boycott pour l'Arabie Saoudite, où l'on décapite publiquement chaque vendredi les condamnés à mort et où les femmes sont cloîtrées. Pas de boycott pour la Chine populaire, qui occupe depuis des décennies un Tibet martyr. Pas de boycott pour la Syrie, qui occupe militairement le Liban voisin, qui emprisonne les opposants au régime, et dont le président tient régulièrement des propos antisémites. Une fois de plus, c'est l'Etat d'Israël et lui seul qui est traité en « juif des nations »."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78043993?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78043993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78043993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#78043993' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-78036538</id><published>2002-06-21T12:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-21T12:03:06.340-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BRAVO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elisabeth Schemla de &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xhome.php3"&gt;ProcheOrient.info&lt;/a&gt; adresse une &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pol_der_heure.php3?id_article=2088"&gt;lettre ouverte&lt;/a&gt; à l'AFP pour protester contre ses dépêches biaisés et empruntes d'une symphatie pro-palestinienne patente. Cette attitude indigne de l'agence de presse française, la 3ème plus importante au monde s'est révelée intolérable ces 3 derniers jours. Extraits:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Comment, alors même que 19 Israéliens - dont des enfants se rendant dans leur classe – meurent déchiquetés dans un bus détruit par une bombe le mardi 18 juin au matin, le bureau de l'AFP Jérusalem ose-t-il commencer ainsi son papier général de 10H01 : « Un kamikaze palestinien s'est donné la mort dans un bus bondé de Jérusalem, tuant seize passagers, y compris des écoliers….. » ? (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comment, hier soir 20 juin, juste après l'assassinat dans la colonie d'Itamar en Cisjordanie de cinq Israéliens dont trois enfants de 15, 12 et 5 ans, le bureau de Jérusalem peut-il titrer sa dépêche de 21.37 : « Quatre colons juifs tués par des Palestiniens dans une colonie » ?"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-78036538?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78036538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/78036538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#78036538' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77961180</id><published>2002-06-19T19:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-19T19:33:51.583-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;24 SUMMERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is my birthday and the summer officially starts tomorrow. if it wasn't for the non-stop rain here in Brittany, it would all be perfect.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77961180?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77961180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77961180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77961180' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77934641</id><published>2002-06-19T07:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-19T07:28:35.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PATHETIQUE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;José Bové est &lt;a href="http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=36383"&gt;arrivé &lt;/a&gt;cet après-midi à la prison ou il doit servir une peine de 3 mois pour avoir mis à sac un McDonald's à Millau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Juché sur un tracteur, le porte-parole de la Confédération paysanne est escorté par cinq autres engins agricoles et une centaine de véhicules conduits par des "compagnons de combat".&lt;br /&gt;En vue de la prison, vers 14h30, José Bové a stoppé son tracteur pour parler avec une cinquantaine de sympathisants postés au bord de la route."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bové continue de moquer la justice française tout en voulant nous faire croire qu'il ne prétend pas se subsituer à sa responsabilité. Quelle autre stratégie peu-il adopter? Le maquis? S'il n'obéissait pas à la justice, il risquait de devenit un fugitif et puiqu'il est incapable de rester discret, à l'écart des coups d'éclat, il aurait vite été repéré. Bové est donc arrivé à la prison vers 15h alors qu'il était convoqué à 8:30, espérons que cela lui vaudra une prolongation de sa peine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77934641?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77934641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77934641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77934641' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77932891</id><published>2002-06-19T06:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-21T15:04:02.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;EUPHEMISMES ET EXAGERATIONS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les médias français utilisent une panoplie de termes et d'expressions qui façonnent l'humeur nationale. Certains mots sont, à y réfléchir, totalement inadaptés à la description de la réalité. Les médias n'inventent pas ces mots, ils les empruntent aux acteurs de l'actualité, voire aux parties d'un conflit, mais sans jamais les analyser. Je ne m'atarderais pas sur le vocabulaire appliqué à la description du conflit au Proche-orient, qui fait que l'AFP parle de 'bébés colons' quand des enfants juifs dans les territoires sont victimes d'un attentat et que l'on qualifie les preneurs d'otage au passé sanguinaire de l'Eglise de la Nativité de 'militants' ou de 'résistants'. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus proche de chez nous, un des termes les plus usités dans les discussions et les médias est 'insécurité', doux euphémisme pour 'criminalité' qui semble englober tous les méfaits, du jet d'un mégot par terre au meurtre, en passant par le viol. Parler d''insécurité' c'est se refuser à isoler un ensemble des comportements qui n'ont pas de place dans la cité et dont les perpétrateurs doivent en être retirés. 'Insécurité' suggère un état de fait anormal, une déviation de la situation de 'sécurité' et non pas une violation des règles de la société. C'est un euphémisme qui atténue les rapports conflictuels et qui ne peut conduire qu'à la clémence et à l'aveuglement puisqu'on ne met pas en cause un comportment criminel mais un simple dérangement du statu quo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l'opposé les médias lancent le mot 'sécuritaire' dès que les autorités s'essayent à une résolution des problèmes de criminalité. Ce terme stigmatise les esprits quand il prétend qualifier ce qui est une des missions régaliennes de l'Etat démocratique: assurer le maitien de la paix. Avec son terme cousin 'repression', il fait des ravages en imprégnant l'action de l'Etat chez l'opinion d'un sentiment de méfiance er de défiance qui fait que chez nous la police fait peur aux honnêtes gens mais pas aux criminels. Ce sont en effet tous les membres du crime organisé et du grand banditisme qui doivent bien se marrer en regardant les infos et en voyant que grâce aux septiques et aux naifs d'une société civile imprégnée par l'esprit de mai '68, ils pourront continuer à dévaliser des bijouteries sans trop s'inquiéter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un autre euphémisme repris de la bouche même du perpétrateur et qui a conquis les esprits est celui du 'démontage', utilisé par José Bové pour décrire la destruction d'un restaurant McDonald's. La scène a été filmée et ne suggère pas un 'démontage' organisé, propre mais plutôt une mise à sac violente et anarchique charactéristique des actions des agriculteurs qui sabotent les installations de la SNCF, séquestrent des hommes d'affaires et ravagent les rayons des supermarchés en faisant preuve d'une violence publique rarement vue dans la France d'aujourd'hui, cela dans une impunité totale dont personne ne s'émeut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si on veut une société plus paisible, civilisée, le premier pas est de se débarraser de ces termes ravageurs qui alimentent le climat d'ambivalence et d'irresponsabilité caractéristique d'une société française qui n'ose pas dire les mots de sa réalité.         &lt;br /&gt;       &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77932891?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77932891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77932891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77932891' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77931054</id><published>2002-06-19T05:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-19T06:51:47.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;RAPPEL NECESSAIRE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--281316-,00.html"&gt;Editorial salutaire&lt;/a&gt; de Georges Bensoussan dans &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; d'aujourd'hui. Des évidences bien sûr, mais qu'un bon nombre de français se refusent encore à intégrer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Le terrorisme des uns, entend-on à raison, est la résistance des autres. A ceci près : la Résistance française, érigée en modèle par les uns et les autres, n'a jamais assassiné de femmes et d'enfants allemands dans des lieux dépourvus du moindre intérêt stratégique (un café-restaurant, par exemple). A ceci près encore : la mise à mort de ces civils israéliens, à l'intérieur des frontières de 1967, murmure autre chose, le refus de la légitimité d'une présence juive où que ce soit sur le territoire de l'ancien mandat britannique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des "actes de désespoir", dit-on. Qui nierait, en effet, la situation tragique d'un peuple qui, depuis le plan Peel de 1937 jusqu'aux compromis de Camp David (2000) et de Tabah (2001), a, de refus en refus, manqué les occasions historiques et fait de la sorte son malheur (à commencer par les réfugiés de 1948) comme celui de la région tout entière ? Le "désespoir" ne fabrique pas les "bombes humaines", elles feraient sinon le quotidien de cette planète : du Tibet au Kurdistan, quid de tant de situations désespérées, où l'on n'entend guère parler de "bombes humaines" ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est la culture du sacrifice et du martyre, y compris dans les "milieux laïques" du Fatah, qui y pourvoit. Quand, pour protester contre les persécutions infligées aux bouddhistes, les bonzes sud-vietnamiens s'immolaient jadis par le feu, c'est leur vie seule qu'ils mettaient en jeu, sans chercher à entraîner dans la mort des victimes alentour. Ici, au contraire, la priorité est l'assassinat et non le suicide. Mue non tant par le désespoir que par un refus rémanent d'ordre social et culturel (on a oublié le statut du juif dhimmi en terre d'islam), d'ordre politique, voire quasi métaphysique ("Reconnaître Israël, ce serait reconnaître le non-être arabe", déclarait jadis Ahmed Ben Bella), qui se traduit par une incapacité à accepter la légitimité d'une présence juive sur une portion de cette terre."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77931054?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77931054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77931054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77931054' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77915892</id><published>2002-06-18T19:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-18T19:32:29.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;EDIFIANT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nouvelle initiative remarquable de &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xhome.php3"&gt;ProcheOrient.info&lt;/a&gt;; la traduction de l'enquête du quotidien allemand &lt;i&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/i&gt; qui confirme que l'Union Européenne finance l'incitation à la haine via les livres scolaires antisémites et l'Intifada via le des aides grossièrement détournées. Extraits croustillants et révélateurs de l'irresponsabilté (consciente et volontaire) de Chris Patten et de la Comission Européenne: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Si l'on en croit l'Union Européenne, le contrôle sur le versement des aides à la Palestine existe vraiment : c'est le FMI (Fonds Monétaire International). Le commissaire européen Chris Patten écrit que le FMI procède à un contrôle strict des paiements et émet une déclaration mensuelle de ratification. Ce travail est effectué pour le FMI par Karim Nashashibi. Il vit à Jérusalem. Cet homme qui, d'après Patten est supposé vérifier les comptes de l'Autorité Palestinienne est lui-même Palestinien. Il vient du même clan et porte les mêmes patronymes que celui qui fut longtemps le ministre des Finances de Yasser Arafat. Il a même été sur le point d'entamer une carrière politique avec Arafat : jusqu'à très récemment, l'homme du FMI était pressenti pour devenir le prochain ministre des Finances d'Arafat. Mais le vent a tourné. Le conseiller financier d'Arafat, Fuad Shoubaki, l'homme qui a acheté le Karina-A, est fier d'appeler le représentant du FMI Nashashibi « son ami »."&lt;/i&gt; (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Récemment, les Palestiniens eux-mêmes ont informé les Européens de leurs intentions. Le 22 avril 2002, à la Conférence méditerranéenne de Valence, en Espagne, le ministre palestinien Nabil Shaath présenta des demandes d'aides pour un montant de 1,9 milliard de dollars aux membres de la Commission européenne. Selon plusieurs témoins dont les déclarations se recoupent, la liste de Shaath incluait un budget de 20,6 millions de dollars pour des armes et 40,6 millions de dollars pour l'aide aux détenus et aux « familles des martyrs ». Les Palestiniens pensaient sérieusement que les Européens rivaliseraient avec Saddam Hussein et paieraient le prix du sang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les diplomates européens rassemblés là ne donnèrent pas l'alarme en voyant cette requête. Ils n'étaient pas furieux, seulement profondément embarrassés. Ils cachèrent la liste dans un coffre-fort. Ils ne voulaient rien en savoir." &lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77915892?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77915892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77915892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77915892' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77862799</id><published>2002-06-17T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-17T15:14:54.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;THE HARDER THE FALL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used to vote for the Left when I was younger. My parents are both public school teachers so I had no alternative growing up. After I traveled a bit and looked at the issues, I came to realize the French Left was desperately stuck in the past, too scared of this changing world to even adapt and move away from its irresponsible tax &amp; spend ideology. Instead of telling us we have a wonderful country full of gifted people and that everything could be better if we worked for it, the Socialists gave in people's lowest instincts, blaming everything from corporations to free trade for people's woes. I wondered how the French could still buy that kind of talk and quickly moved on to the 'conservatives' (for lack of a more appropriate word). Now the Left has lost all its relevance as they will be shilded from power for the next five years. Most of the personalities of the Jospin governement have lost their seats in the House, including Martine Aubry, the mother of the 35-hour work week and Robert Hue, the leader of the Communist Party. &lt;a href="http://eparses.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eparses&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; argues that this is a unique chance for the Socialists to get real by moving on to a Tony Blair-like orientation. This of course is the solution. But I know that so many French people still love simplistic solutions like banning businesses from downsizing and giving young people useless government jobs to keep them away from setting cars or synagogues on fire. I also know the Socialists will never get a clue and will keep their sympathizers in their world of illusions. I gave up on them long ago and apparently most of the French just did the same. And suddenly I am happier to be here.             &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77862799?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77862799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77862799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77862799' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77861391</id><published>2002-06-17T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-17T14:31:04.703-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;JUSTICE FOR ALL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;José Bové est convoqué en prison demain (mercredi) ou il doit passer quelques semaines à se refroidir la tête loin de l'agitation des sacages de restaurants américains ou de champs transgéniques et des 'camps de concentration' de Cisjordanie. Souhaitons que cette aventure lui donne l'envie de retourner s'occuper de sa ferme du Larzac qui doit être depuis longtemps bouffée par les mauvaises herbes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77861391?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77861391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77861391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_archive.html#77861391' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77631853</id><published>2002-06-11T17:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-11T17:31:41.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA REPONSE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ProcheOrient.info a traduit la &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pol_der_heure.php3?id_article=1648"&gt;réplique&lt;/a&gt; d'Oriana Fallaci aux attaques de l'intelligentsia parisienne (la seule critique positive que j'ai lue est celle de Finkelkraut). C'est un article qui fait mouche: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"On me demande si je suis en colère contre la France, au moment où 95% des journaux parisiens se mettent à attaquer et dénigrer mon livre, &lt;i&gt;La Rage et l'Orgueil&lt;/i&gt;, en surenchérissant encore sur ce qu'avaient écrit plusieurs mois auparavant les braillards italiens. Ils disent que c'est un livre « abominable, détestable, abject ». On n'aurait jamais du le laisser publier, hurlent-ils partout. Ils me comparent à Céline. Ils me diffament, ils m'insultent, ils me traitent de raciste. (..)&lt;br /&gt;Et pourtant, je continue à répondre non à cette question qu'on me pose. Parce que ces fascistes rouges qui se sont conduits de façon si méprisable en mars envers les représentants du gouvernement italien [au Salon du Livre], ceux qui se comportent de façon si méprisable envers moi maintenant, allant, ces ordures, ces voyous, jusqu'à insulter la mémoire de mon père, ils ne sont pas la France. (...) &lt;i&gt;La Rage et l'Orgueil&lt;/i&gt; a été épuisé en moins de trois jours. Il est passé en l'espace d'une semaine parmi les livres les plus vendus. L'éditeur Plon a dû le rééditer et le rééditer encore en mettant tout le monde au travail, même le week-end. Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Cela signifie que la liberté de pensée et d'opinion existe encore en France, que la France est encore la République française de Marianne et que pour ce peuple vous ne comptez pas." &lt;/i&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77631853?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77631853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77631853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_09_archive.html#77631853' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77605937</id><published>2002-06-11T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-11T04:57:59.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;RIDICULOUS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not think I would live to see the day when the U.S. would do better than France in soccer. I happened today when defending champions France left Korea without scoring in single goal in 3 games. Meanwhile the U.S. is on the verge of qualifying for the 2nd round (all they need is a tie against Poland). Many people here are saying 'we were out of luck'. Yeah, I'm sure luck explains how you go from being the best team in the world to being the lousiest. From now on: Go USA!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77605937?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77605937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77605937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_09_archive.html#77605937' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77545196</id><published>2002-06-09T18:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-09T18:15:56.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ELECTION NIGHT... AGAIN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night was the first round of the Parliament elections. Unlike the politicians who don't seem to have learned anything from April 21 (there was a average of 20 candidates for every seat), it looks like the French have matured a bit. Le Pen's Front National did very poorly and should get a grand total of one seat (out of 577) in the Assemblée Nationale next Sunday. The extreme left did even worse as the the Greens only got 4% of the national vote and the Troskystes gathered 2% (they had 11% at the presidential election). The electorate chose the two traditonal parties: Chirac's Gaullists won the most votes and probable seats. The Socialists held ground but the leftist alliance 'Gauche Plurielle' that had the power and shared the Jospin cabinet positions in the last 5 years is gone since the Communists and the Greens have lost all their relevance. It's official: France is back on track.      &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77545196?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77545196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77545196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_09_archive.html#77545196' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77531058</id><published>2002-06-09T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-09T17:58:46.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;POURQUOI?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai toujours eu de la peine pour les invités américains de &lt;i&gt;Nulle Part Ailleurs&lt;/i&gt; sur Canal + qui étaient obligés de rester sur le plateau à attendre qu'on leur demande la parole après les infos, la météo, les &lt;i&gt;Guignols&lt;/i&gt; et bien sûr les pubs. Résultat: ils parlaient 10 minutes en 1 heure d'émission. Ils devaient se demander si on les prenait pour des cons. La même chose s'est produite hier soir à l'émission d'Ardisson sur France 2: la chanteuse Samantha Fox (qui revient de l'oubli) était toute contente d'être là puis le spécialiste du renseignement Guillaume Dasquié est arrivé pour démonter les affabulations de Thierry Meysan selon qui le 11 septembre serait un coup monté. C'était très intéressant mais apparemment Fox n'y comprenait rien et après 5 minutes à se forcer à sourire elle en avait vraiment marre, et donnait des regards désespérés autour d'elle. C'était très drôle mais aussi un peu triste. Quand Letterman ou Leno invitent des étrangers c'est seulement si ils parlent anglais et ils ne les forcent pas à rester assister à l'émission entière. Mais bon, il y aurait beaucoup de choses à dire sur la télévision française. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77531058?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77531058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77531058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_09_archive.html#77531058' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77516519</id><published>2002-06-08T19:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-08T19:28:29.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DISGRACE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Très instructif, cet &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_info.php3"&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;de ProcheOrient.info sur l'enragé antisémite qu'est devenu le comique Dieudonné. On verra au passage comme l'ONU se décrédibilise chaque jour un peu plus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Les juifs ne sont pas les seuls à faire les frais de la "libre pensée" de Dieudonné. Fin mars 2000, il déclarait dans une interview à "France Soir" que les blancs et les catholiques sont des "esclavagistes" et des "racistes" et que l'Église catholique "cautionnait l'argent, le racisme, la différence et la guerre", demandant la démission du Pape. (...) La même année, Dieudonné a reçu de l'ONU le titre honorifique d' "Homme de bonne volonté dans sa lutte contre le racisme"."  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Formidable.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77516519?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77516519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77516519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_archive.html#77516519' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77480053</id><published>2002-06-07T16:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-07T16:16:30.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;GO CAPTAIN EURO!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The European Union has a &lt;a href="http://www.captaineuro.com/index.htm"&gt;superhero&lt;/a&gt;! His name is Captain Euro and the world will learn to fear him...or not. Well, at least it beats having José Bové representing you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77480053?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77480053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77480053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_archive.html#77480053' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77469469</id><published>2002-06-07T10:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-07T10:59:11.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;THOSE FRENCH...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://letterfromgotham.blogspot.com/"&gt;Diane E&lt;/a&gt;. e-mailed me this disturbing &lt;a href="http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage4.asp"&gt;piece &lt;/a&gt;on the picture that Gallimard chose for the cover of the French edition of Saul Bellow's latest book, &lt;i&gt;Ravelstein&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"In &lt;i&gt;Ravelstein&lt;/i&gt;, Saul Bellow depicts the title character of his latest novel, Abe Ravelstein, as a larger-than-life bon vivant, a man with a "bald powerful head" and "finely made hands." The publishers of the French edition of Mr. Bellow’s book have envisioned a much different Ravelstein on the cover, however, and at least one person close to the author says the image smacks of anti-Semitism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American cover of Ravelstein depicts a photograph of an espresso-stained demitasse and a half-full glass of water at the Café de Flore, a haunt of Ravelstein, who was closely modeled on Mr. Bellow’s late friend and colleague, Allan Bloom. Most international editions of the novel reproduced that image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when Gallimard published the Gallic edition of Ravelstein, the book’s cover featured a photograph of a decrepit, large-nosed, large-eared, shriveled and slight old man with his hair combed up into two horn-like tufts. The image doesn’t fit the description of Abe Ravelstein, Allan Bloom or even Chick, the character that serves as Mr. Bellow’s surrogate in the novel. Rather, it’s a picture that shares many qualities with traditional French and German caricatures of Jews from the 30’s and 40’s—which, naturally, does not sit well with those close to the dean of American Jewish fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though Mr. Bellow did not return calls, his biographer, James Atlas, called the Gallimard cover "quite astonishing". (...) Noting that the image looked nothing like Mr. Bellow’s description of Ravelstein or even the real Allan Bloom, he said: "It’s an anxious, furtive face—the face of a Jew in France. "On the other hand, it figures, French intellectuals harbor anti-Semitism in the guise of radical politics. The cover is an example of the subliminal, unconscious anti-Semitism of the French."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we should not read too much into that and accuse Gallimard of anti-semitism. What they are guilty of, however, is exhibiting the same old carefree tendency that makes people here think that (political) correctness is a bourgeois attitude that has no place in a civilized, superior world like the publishing industry. They probably figured it was a funny picture and nobody could be offended by it, since as everyone knows, there is no antisemitism in France! The problem is we take things like that too lightly, in that quirky French way thats leads people to think that nothing is too sacred to be laughed about, no association too ambiguous to make. The French love to challenge the status-quo, the correctness, not to make a point but rather to show how clever and inventive they are. If anyone is offended by that, it must be because they are too sensitive, too shallow. To hell with responsabilty, 'esprit' is what matters! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77469469?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77469469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77469469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_archive.html#77469469' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77441801</id><published>2002-06-06T18:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-06T18:03:50.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;THE HORROR&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just watched the Danny Pearl murder video. I'm at a loss for words to describe how I feel. And that was right after watching this Channel Four piece (translated for French TV) showing scenes from inside North Korea. A country where kids are picking up grain in the mud to feed themselves and people are forced to buy human remains at the market because the State retains all the humanitarian aid that's shipped in. What a world. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77441801?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77441801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77441801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_archive.html#77441801' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77343407</id><published>2002-06-04T13:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-06-04T13:18:43.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did the Israeli embassy in Paris ever burn down or was it just a dream of mine? Apparently I'm not the only one to remember that it did happen: humorist Larry Miller &lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/304rlpow.asp"&gt;wonders &lt;/a&gt;in &lt;i&gt;The Weekly Standard &lt;/i&gt;why the media has bought the "accident" explanation and immediatly buried the story. I know I have not heard a single thing about it since May 24th, the day after the embassy was leveled by a raging fire, probably caused by a fuse short-circuit. Are we supposed to just move on and forget it ever happened? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"But it was just an accident. A short circuit. At two in the morning. Just a few hours after that great Jewish sage, Woody Allen, was in Cannes in front of the French press insisting he has never seen or heard of any anti-Semitism in France. Yup, just a short circuit with no investigation. Well, why look into something when no one can even imagine a stray reason to think it was anything else? Let's see, you're in France, these days, and a building burns down in the middle of the night. Hmm . . . Was it the Louvre? No . . . Was it the palace at Versailles? No . . . Was it Disneyland? No . . . Was it the big, concrete building full of Jews? Bingo! Just an electrical problem, though. (And the head electrician, Mohammed Jihad, agrees completely.)"  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77343407?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77343407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77343407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_06_02_archive.html#77343407' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77199114</id><published>2002-05-31T15:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-31T15:24:08.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;SACREBLEU!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Newsweek&lt;/i&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/756953.asp"&gt;Fareed Zakaria &lt;/a&gt;argues that Europe needs to realize that, for Western countries, military intervention is sometimes the only way to guarantee peace and that diplomatic missions only so far (that is, not very). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, if we Europeans are serious about regaining our relevance on the international stage, we should quit complaining about America's "hegemony" and get down to business, show the dictators and mass murderers of this world that they should not only be afraid of Uncle Sam. As Zakaria points out, European nations led the bloodiest wars against eachother, and for 50 years have learned to make peace and live with eachother. Fantastic. The problem is that in the process, we seem to have applied this great philosophy of mutual respect to the rest of the world, and the only agression going on now is a verbal one towards the very people who came to free us in '44. We have to open our eyes to the fact that most of our neighbors are not in the same peace-loving, advanced post-materialistic state of mind. Pushing the war option to the side only makes the Realpolitik-inspired Americans more prominent and keeps us oblivious to the true matters of this world. Of course diplomacy is wonderful, non-violence should be our goal but I am not sure the Arafats and Sadaams of this planet are quite there yet.       &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77199114?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77199114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77199114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_archive.html#77199114' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77189445</id><published>2002-05-31T10:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-31T14:10:08.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;TOUR DE FRANCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;i&gt;New Yorker&lt;/i&gt;'s Joe Klein is traveling around France for &lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Slate&lt;/i&gt;. His daily &lt;a href="http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066297&amp;entry=2066259"&gt;diary &lt;/a&gt;is a jewel whether you are American or French:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Europe is in crisis, and in a fairly pissy mood besides. There is a growing "rift" with America. We are seen as naive, arrogant, unilateral barbarians. And Europe itself is becoming less fun: There is crime, there is a tide of immigrants, there are right-wing demagogues, there are right-wing demagogues being assassinated, there are lunatic children firing weapons in schools. Indeed, the news from Europe sounds ... rather American, don't you think? Could this possibly be true? Where are the accordion players of yesteryear? The Guardian has put me on the case: a six-country Arrogant Yank tour, starting in France, anti-Americanism's most fragrant vineyard. (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The train from Calais to Lille is a disgrace. I had hoped for the Orient Express. What I get is double-deckered, graffiti-smeared (the artist "Eczema '97" has claimed this for his own), and vinyl-seated. On my seat, someone has written, "A spliff a day keeps the doctor away." We haven't seen trains as anarchic as this in the States for years—and I experience an epiphany: &lt;b&gt;Is it possible that Europe really has become just like America, but an America of the recent past—the 1970s, to be precise, a period for which I harbor zero nostalgia? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about it: In the '70s American politicians were still caught in the turbulence of the George Wallace phenomenon—Wallace, the American Le Pen, who had stood in the schoolhouse door to block integration. In the '70s, too, Americans were reacting against an exploding crime rate (it had quadrupled in the '60s) and a rush of new immigrants from such un-American places as Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, Africa, and South Asia. Young people were alienated. The economy was sluggish; American products weren't nearly so nifty as those from Germany and Japan. Jimmy Carter was worried about a national "malaise," which was reflected in the polls: For the first time in the history of the country, a majority of Americans didn't think next year would be better. Much of this was handled over time: Crime abated, industry reorganized itself, the immigrants proved themselves brilliant Americans, "Eczema '74" stowed the spray paint and learned computer programming, Donny and Marie Osmond retired. We vanquished the Evil Empire and made the world safe for Disney. We've even made some progress on race. But it was rather painful there for a while. One wonders if Europe can make a similar recovery."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77189445?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77189445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77189445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_archive.html#77189445' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-77019625</id><published>2002-05-27T04:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-27T04:05:49.173-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;W IN NORMANDY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George W. Bush is in Normandy right now, honoring the thousands of young men who died on our beaches to free France in June 1944. Normandy is actually just a couple hours away from here in Brittany and if it had not been for my finals, I may have taken a TGV to the scene, just to yell at the protesters who are marching against 'U.S. imperialism' to the chant of 'L'Internationale'. Organizers were expecting 15.000 people but only 1000 showed up. Many of them probably realized this is Memorial Day and used their last bit of reason to show some respect. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-77019625?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77019625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/77019625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_archive.html#77019625' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76995873</id><published>2002-05-26T12:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-26T12:17:38.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CANNES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Cannes film festival ended tonight. The ceremony was as short and boring as ever, and there was a eerie absence of booing, a Cannes tradition. The best answer to the radicals calling for a boycott of the Festival was the &lt;a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/ap/20020526/ap_wo_en_ge/cannes_awards_5"&gt;Palme d'Or &lt;/a&gt;given to Roman Polanski's &lt;i&gt;'The Pianist' &lt;/i&gt;with Adrien Brody, his very personal account of a Polish man surviving the Warsaw ghetto. My hero Martin Scorcese was there but was not asked to speak!!! &lt;i&gt;Boogie Nights' &lt;/i&gt;P.T. Anderson won Best Director for his new movie with Adam 'Waterboy' Sandler. Unfortunately, Sandler was not there! That would have been a most unusual sight.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76995873?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76995873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76995873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_archive.html#76995873' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76995329</id><published>2002-05-26T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-26T11:54:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DE L'ESPOIR?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus de mille personnalités palestiniennes ont signé un &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_pol_der_heure.php3?id_article=1016"&gt;appel &lt;/a&gt;à arrêter les attentats en Israël. Via l'excellent site &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xhome.php3"&gt;Proche-Orient.info&lt;/a&gt; ou vous trouverez aussi toutes les informations sur les &lt;a href="http://proche-orient.info/xexclu_article.php3?id_article=992"&gt;terroristes &lt;/a&gt;palestiniens que l'UE a acceuilli parmi nous.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76995329?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76995329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76995329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_archive.html#76995329' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76971623</id><published>2002-05-25T16:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-25T16:17:14.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;EXPLAINER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry for the low activity on STM recently. I am studying for my finals and posting will be be sporadic until Thursday. I also turned in my Sciences-Po thesis about online journalism (and weblogs). I'll put it online once it's graded. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76971623?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76971623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76971623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_19_archive.html#76971623' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76734805</id><published>2002-05-19T15:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-19T15:33:40.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CONTRADICTION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Super réplique de François Fillon, ministre des affaires sociales, à Marie-Georges Buffet, ministre communiste des sports du gouvernement Jospin à France Europe Express dimanche soir:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fillon: Nous allons continuer à privatiser les entreprises publiques&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buffet: Alors, c'est ça votre réponse sur le secteur public. Plus de privatisations?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fillon: Oui, enfin, moins qu'avec vous, parcequ'il n'y en a plus beaucoup!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Touché!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76734805?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76734805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76734805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_19_archive.html#76734805' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76720494</id><published>2002-05-19T04:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-31T10:26:42.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;THE ICONIC PERVERT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brit blogger Tanya Headon over at &lt;i&gt;I Hate Music &lt;/i&gt;has a late yet devastating &lt;a href="http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/2002_04_01_hated.html#76005903"&gt;eulogy&lt;/a&gt; of one of France's beloved treasures, Serge Gainsbourg, who happened to be a sad old perv constantly trying to take our tolerance to digusting behavior to new highs. Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Gainsbourg’s reputation as a genius rests on an endless succession of naughty pranks – getting some Eurovision poppet to sing a song about blowjobs; getting Brigitte Bardot to sing a song about shagging; getting Jane Birkin to sing a song about bum sex; getting a bunch of lounge-jazz musos to play songs about fucking a 15-year old; getting Sly and Robbie to do the national anthem in comedy dirty reggae style; getting his daughter sing a song about incest….oh, and writing a book about farting, and sexually harassing Whitney Houston. Rabelaisian? Hardly. Gainsbourg is the Benny Hill of pop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gainsbourg could turn his hand to any kind of music, just as long as you didn’t ask him to do it well. The clattery, clumsy rhythms of his sixties ‘rock and roll’ efforts were a pathetic, Pat Boone take on the music. “Je T’Aime” has the dishonour of sounding like twenty years of lame porno soundtracks – except, astonishingly, even less funky. The stinkiest hippie on the lowliest commune could have beaten Serge’s 70s acoustic numbers into the ground. Your phone is a better synthesizer than the ones on his 80s records.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then he died. His influence is with us today, of course – France still turns up the odd snippet of paedo-pop in honour of the old bore (...) and Serge looms large in the memory of assorted neurotics desperate to convince themselves they’re having filthier sex than the general public. That public ignores such people and gets on with shagging like rabbits – and whatever soundtrack they choose, you can bet your life it’s not Serge Gainsbourg."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76720494?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76720494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76720494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_19_archive.html#76720494' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76707378</id><published>2002-05-18T17:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-18T18:09:24.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;MAN OF REASON&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colin Powell does his best to maintain good relations between the U.S. and Europe and is one of the few in the Bush Administration who does not give in to American conservatives' (understandable and often clearly justifiable but rarely productive) defiance towards the Old Continent. Because of the trust and work he puts in his attempts to bring us closer together against our common enemies, his &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-europe-powell.html"&gt;exasperation &lt;/a&gt;over the US-bashing that is so common in Europe should give us all pause. Powell is no uniteralist and represents the "voice of reason" of the Administration for the Europeans. He is in constant cooperation with European leaders and keeps abreast of the public opinion here. So when he denounces idiotic opposition to whatever decision the U.S. takes and anti-American bias in the European press, his words strike a chord:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"The evidence is also there that sometimes when we strike what we believe is a correct position and we explain it to people and people don't agree with us it turns out that, a few months or half a year later, maybe we weren't all that wrong"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is great. And he also justifies anti-European sentiment in the U.S.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"There are some in Europe who are quick to find fault with any position that the United States might take that we believe is a correct principled position...so I think there is something of a reverse spin coming back on the rhetoric"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do believe French bashing in the U.S. is only a reaction to a long tradition of hosttily towards the U.S. here. The strong anti-Americanism you can observe here probably dates back to de Gaulle who always tried to pretend as if France could be as influencial and powerful as the U.S. and insisted on treating Americans more as adversaries than partners. Still, anti-Americanism in France remains limited to the political sphere. A lot of people you talk to here dislike Bush almost as much as they hated Reagan, think the U.S. is trying to impose its culture and economic models to the rest of the world. Still, this afternoon, finding a table to put down my tray at McDonald's was a drag and forget about getting a ticket to see "Star Wars: l'Attaque des Clones" here this weekend: the movie theaters are actually turning down people. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76707378?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76707378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76707378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76707378' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76679727</id><published>2002-05-17T18:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-18T04:12:03.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WELCOME INSTAPUNDIT READERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for visiting my blog. Here you will find comments in English and in French on subjects ranging primarly from French-American relations, Israel and French politics. Hope you'll like it. If you don't read French, you might wanna scroll down a bit for more English.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76679727?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76679727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76679727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76679727' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76678949</id><published>2002-05-17T18:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-17T19:05:01.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;FEAR THE MIGHTY GENDARMES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you all know, France has a big crime problem and the Socialists were brought back down to Earth when the electorate realized they could not do a single thing about it (here, fighting crime is not a bi-partisan priority). Now we have a conservative governement in which Nicolas Sarkozy is in charge of homeland security. Sarkozy is actually meeting with police officers, going on the beat with them, gets stones thrown at him as they patrol the "banlieue" as they do every night and yesterday he announced the local police would be given 'flash ball guns', that is air guns that shoot rubber bullets. Great: now they won't have to stand watching the criminals as they flee, afraid to shoot real bullets. Makes good sense, right? Well, not if you listen to the "Human Rights League" who &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/020517/85/2lbed.html"&gt;complains&lt;/a&gt; that is a "repressive arsenal" that will change the role of the local police who is supposed "make people feel safer". Guess I was mistaken when I thought the police was there to stop criminals, my bad. Lately, it has become sort of a custom for "youths" here to gang up and take on a police precinct. Recently, somebody threw a grenade through a precinct window. It exploded but fortunately no one was injured. Actually, no one here respects the police and criminals adopt a attidude of defiance and are not scared anymore, if they ever were. By its own admission, the police cannot compete in car chases with their small Renaults or Peugeots against criminals who outspeed them in no time. We are the European country with the most police officers, but among the last when it comes to the number of cops actually on the beat, since most of them are busy smoking cigarettes in offices, figuring out how to type their reports with more than one finger and going home at 4 in the afternoon courtesy of the 35-hour workweek. And when French cops are actually taking on the bad guys, they are supposed to offer little resistance: last year, a young police officer found himself in the path of a man who had just killed his partner and was about to run him over, he shot at the car, thereby killing the driver. He was immediately suspended from the force. Now local cops, who previously did not have guns will be able to shoot rubber bullets at fleeing killers, that might seem like a kinder, gentler approach to fighting crime, but to most of the French Left, policemen are just supposed to appease the criminals, not make them angry because then, things might turn worse. I'm not making that up, that's actually what they are saying, if you read French, check out what Olivier Besancenot, the &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/020517/226/2lboi.html"&gt;"Revolutionary Communist League" presidential candidate &lt;/a&gt;(no joke here either) has to say about the issue. Here is a translation, because it's just too good: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"By choosing all out repression over prevention, which is the fight against social anxiety, the right-wing governement is opting for social confrontation. Tomorrow, will they use 'flash balls' against political opponents? Coming from Chirac it's not a surprise, but it sure is scary".    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besancenot, only one of three trostkyste presidential hopefuls and to whom 6% of the French gave their trust to be President, thinks all police action is "repression", and since we can't have that, he advocates creating government jobs for all the unemployed and making layoffs illegal, so then nobody would be tempted by crime. But of course! Everybody knows people who have a job would never commit a crime!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76678949?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76678949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76678949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76678949' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76662455</id><published>2002-05-17T09:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-19T09:40:36.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DUBYA &amp; CHIRAC: JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le &lt;i&gt;Nouvel Obs &lt;/i&gt; raconte 18 mois de &lt;a href="http://www.nouvelobs.com/articles/p1958/a17738.html"&gt;rapports tendus mais amicaux &lt;/a&gt;entre les deux présidents, ou l'on réalise que malgré "l'unilatéralisme" américain, George W. Bush (personne ne l'appelle "Bush junior" comme le fait ici avec un soupçon de mépris bien français Vincent Jauvert) apprécie beaucoup Chirac (et pas du tout Jospin) et les deux hommes sont en contact fréquent. Chirac fut le premier chef d'Etat étranger à rencontrer Dubya à la suite de son élection et de même après 9/11. C'est ici l'occasion de rappeler quelques anecdotes sur notre coopération contre le terrorisme international, du plus bas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hôtel Matignon, le 12 septembre. Cela fait une journée que le monde a basculé. Lionel Jospin vient d’apprendre que Bush a demandé à l’Otan la mise en application de l’article 5 de la Charte atlantique. Celui-ci prévoit que toute attaque contre l’un des alliés est considérée comme une agression contre chacun. «Que faut-il répondre à la Maison-Blanche? demande Jospin. Veut-on nous forcer la main, nous entraîner dans une guerre?» Le Premier ministre demande à ses conseillers ce que contient exactement ce fameux article 5. Soulagés, ils découvrent qu’en réalité chaque pays garde la liberté d’engager ou non ses forces dans un combat mené par l’Alliance. Lionel Jospin téléphone à Jacques Chirac: «Qu’en pensez-vous? – Allons-y! répond le président. Comme vous le savez, cela ne change pas grand-chose. Nous ne serons pas obligés de fournir [des moyens militaires]. Et il ne faut pas être isolé.» Quelques minutes plus tard, Chirac appelle George Bush: «Bien entendu, cher ami, nous sommes favorables à l’application de l’article 5.»&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...au plus encourageant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Elysée, le 14 septembre. Trois jours après les attentats, Jacques Chirac préside une cérémonie extraordinaire dans la cour d’honneur de l’Elysée. A son côté, le tout nouvel ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en France, un ami de George Bush, le milliardaire Howard Leach, qui vient tout juste de prendre ses fonctions. Pour souligner le soutien indéfectible de la France à Washington, le président français fait jouer le «Star-Spangled Banner», l’hymne national américain. C’est une première historique: jamais un hymne étranger n’avait retenti là, dans ce saint des saints de la République. Howard Leach n’a été prévenu que quelques instants auparavant. Il a du mal à retenir ses larmes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76662455?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76662455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76662455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76662455' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76623023</id><published>2002-05-16T09:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-16T09:07:39.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BOVE RECIDIVE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;José Bové en a bien terminé avec le roquefort, la cause palestinienne l'occupant à plein temps. Il répond &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--275951-,00.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt; à Claude Lanzmann, auteur d'une formidable lettre aux écrivains anti-sémites qui concluaient au génocide après deux jours passés à avaler les couleuvres des propagandistes palestiniens. Rien de très nouveau dans cette réaction pour l'honneur (comment rivaliser avec l'écriture et l'esprit de Lanzmann?), sauf que l'on apprend que ce sont les Israéliens qui ont "interrompu les pourparlers" de paix l'année dernière et que les courageux "militants pacifiques" qui sont allé se prosterner devant Arafat "auront travaillé à désamorcer la spirale de haine où se trouve entraîné le Proche-Orient". Si Bové et ses acolytes voulaient vraiment désarmorcer quoi que ce soit, il feraient mieux d'aller convaincre les pauvres Palestiniens que les "martyrs" ne sont pas des &lt;a href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F50912F73A5A0C7B8EDDAD0894DA404482"&gt;héros&lt;/a&gt; et que l'on ne résoud rien en tuant femmes et enfants &lt;a href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F50A12FE355A0C7B8EDDAD0894DA404482"&gt;à bout portant&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76623023?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76623023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76623023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76623023' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76511051</id><published>2002-05-13T15:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-13T15:05:28.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;MOTS DE SAGESSE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis très content de la nomination de &lt;a href="http://www.sos-racisme.org/presse/citoyen.htm"&gt;Tokia Saifi &lt;/a&gt;en tant que secrétaire d'Etat au Développement durable, première femme d'origine maghrébine au gouvernement (si on ne compte pas les représentants des colonies lors de la IVéme République). Et ceci non pas seulement parcequ'elle est charmante et qu'elle a de très bonnes idées ("je milite pour la liberté économique et l'esprit d'initiative", dit-elle) mais parcequ'elle c'est au sein de la droite libérale et progressiste qu'elle s'est épanouie. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Après des années de militantisme associatif et de vote à gauche, Tokia Saifi a rejoint les rangs de Démocratie libérale (DL), le parti d'Alain Madelin, parce qu'elle estime que «la gauche manipulait les immigrés pour faire monter le Front national», parce que «les socialistes ne tenaient jamais leurs promesses sur le droit de vote des immigrés», parce qu'«au-delà des paroles, ils n'ont pas favorisé la promotion des beurs. Madelin, lui, a eu le courage de m'imposer».&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bravo! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76511051?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76511051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76511051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76511051' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76492255</id><published>2002-05-13T05:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-13T14:21:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;AFFRONT NATIONAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la suite de la réaction d'honneur de Jacques Chirac qui a quitté la tribune présidentielle quand La Marseillaise a été sifflée au Stade de France samedi soir par des milliers de Corses, Le Monde rapelle que lors du match France-Algérie, ni Lionel Jospin ni la la ministre des sports Marie-Georges Buffet &lt;a href="http://elections.lemonde.fr/presidentielle/actu/aujourdhui/0,,912647,00.html"&gt;n'avaient réagi aux sifflets&lt;/a&gt;. Ils avaient attendu que des centaines de jeunes arabes envahissent la pelouse et interrompent la rencontre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le lendemain, le choc est immense. La ministre des sports est bouleversée. L'impassibilité du premier ministre, au moment où ont résonné les sifflets, est critiquée par des observateurs. "L'honneur de la France a été bafoué. Il aurait dû se lever, manifester sa désapprobation", commentent la presse et le monde politique. (...) Mme Buffet doit faire face à son premier, mais spectaculaire échec. Et le gouvernement de la gauche plurielle avec elle.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: Je rapelle aux non-initiés que Marie-Georges Buffet est une communiste et que Lionel Jospin fût longtemps un troskiste.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76492255?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76492255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76492255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76492255' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76470170</id><published>2002-05-12T14:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-12T14:19:37.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LOL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;34% of French doctors are smokers. (Source: La Revue du Praticien) One more item to add to your "What the f... is up with the French?" list. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76470170?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76470170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76470170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76470170' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76462041</id><published>2002-05-12T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-12T09:27:59.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;MAGIC KINGDOM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admirez l'hypocrysie inégalée de l'Arabie Saoudite qui a proposé un 'plan de paix' largement discuté et pris au sérieux par beaucoup, dont notre inestimable ex-ministre des Affaires Etrangères Hubert Védrine et qui ne se défend même pas de &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,237005,00.html"&gt;verser de l'argent &lt;/a&gt;aux familles des kamikazes palestiniens. Le prince Saud al-Faisal, ministre des Affaires Etrangères indique que 1800 familles reçoivent une assistance financière du Royaume. Pour ceux qui comptent, à ces millions de dollars, s'ajoutent bien entendu les &lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/45155.htm"&gt;$25.000&lt;/a&gt; que recoit de Saddam Hussein chaque famille dès que l'une de ses progénitures se fait sauter au milieu d'une foule d'Israéliens. Il ya t-il un bonus quand un bébé meurt?        &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76462041?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76462041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76462041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76462041' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76459240</id><published>2002-05-12T07:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-12T07:34:44.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LET'S ALL WELCOME THE JEW KILLERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les 13 "militants" palestiniens les plus recherchés de l'Eglise de la Nativité devraient bientôt être disséminés aux quatre coins de l'Europe. Qui sont-ils? BBC News nous propose une petite &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1979000/1979044.stm"&gt;biographie &lt;/a&gt;de chacun d'entre eux. Quelques invités de choix:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Mohammed Said Salem is believed to have planned two suicide bombings in Jerusalem in March which killed 12 Israelis including a baby. &lt;br /&gt;-Nidal Abu Galif is suspected of making bombs and helping organise the same two suicide bombings as Mohammed Said Salem.&lt;br /&gt;-Aziz Jubran is said to be an explosives expert alleged to be behind the dispatch of suicide bombers into Israel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Passez votre vie à organiser des massacres d'innocents, prenez en otage un des sites chrétiens les plus sacrés du monde et vous pourrez gagner des vacances permanentes en Europe ou vous pourrez continuer à exercer votre spécialité sans avoir ces salauds des services secrets israéliens constamment sur le dos. Merci l'UE!   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76459240?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76459240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76459240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_archive.html#76459240' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76443170</id><published>2002-05-11T17:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-11T17:42:52.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;AIRHEAD OF THE MILLENIUM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/11/drugs.sofa.ap/index.html"&gt;Sanitation workers find huge cocaine stash in couch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has got to be the biggest blunder ever! $8 million thrown out in the street! Maybe the guy's mom came to clean up his place and thought the couch was too old to keep. Anyway, somebody's gonna be pissed! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom! Did you move the couch???&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76443170?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76443170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76443170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76443170' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76426981</id><published>2002-05-11T04:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-11T12:17:59.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ON THE FRONT &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great article by Scott Anderson in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Magazine&lt;/i&gt; It's a &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/"&gt;meticulous account &lt;/a&gt;of a few days spent with men from one of the most celebrated combat units of the Israeli Army: the Palsar Tzanhanim during Operation Defensive Shield. It is a poignant and revealing look at high-skilled reservists who sometimes oppose the Operation and grow tired and anxious from the nerve-wreaking search for terrorists. Still, each time they are wondering if they are doing the right thing, they are reminded what their enemies really are like. A few excerpts:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;''You see the dilemma,'' he says with a short, good-natured laugh. ''On the one hand, I really didn't believe this operation was going to solve anything and would probably push peace further away. Did I want to be a part of that? My wife and I talked about it a lot, and she was very opposed to my coming. But the situation had become so bad'' -- he means the spate of suicide bombings that precipitated this offensive -- that something had to be done. Even if this proves to be the wrong thing, we had to do something. (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Palsars face an even more fundamental challenge here -- one typified by the discovery they made inside a primary school in Tulkarm. &lt;br /&gt;Entering the Palestinian Authority school in the early days of the offensive, a group of Palsars found the classroom walls papered with posters of Palestinian suicide-bomber shahids, or ''martyrs,'' a pantheon of heroes for the 5- and 6-year-olds to look up to. Days later, they can't stop talking about it. I've heard about the primary school from at least a half-dozen platoon members, and always in tones of angry disbelief. (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To a [Palestinian] man, the soldiers profess to be extremely uncomfortable with this house-seizure policy, and that unease is evident as they gingerly explore their new surroundings. In the couch-and-coffee-table arrangements in the living rooms, in the posters and clutter of toys in a child's bedroom, they seem to find a reflection of their own homes such a short distance away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sense of familiarity goes only so far, however. In the television room just off the kitchen, the Palsars come upon a large framed photograph of the patriarch of the family, a white-haired man in his 60's. Tucked into a corner of the frame is a smaller photograph of a boy of 5 or 6 -- presumably the man's grandson -- dressed in a Palestinian fighter's outfit and clutching an oversize toy Kalashnikov. Beside a plate of oranges on an upstairs coffee table, they find a wood carving showing Israel and the occupied territories joined as one nation, but a nation wrapped in the colors of the Palestinian flag. These discoveries help to remind the Palsars that despite the touches of frozen domesticity that surround them, they are in enemy territory, a place where it is dangerous to linger too long beside a window or doorway. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76426981?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76426981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76426981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76426981' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76392926</id><published>2002-05-10T05:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-10T05:12:14.170-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LECON DE CIVISME&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Conseil constitutionnel avait bien prévenu mais un maire socialiste s'est &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/020509/202/2kz9a.html"&gt;entété&lt;/a&gt; à faire son numéro: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le scrutin a été annulé dans la commune de Villemagne (157 suffrages exprimés), dans l'Aude, où le maire socialiste, Alain Bauda, avait fait installer sur la place du village un portique et un pédiluve destinés à la désinfection des électeurs "salis", selon lui, soit d'avoir voté Chirac alors qu'ils étaient de gauche, soit d'avoir dû toucher un bulletin Le Pen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;M. Bauda avait parallèlement "organisé un simulacre de vote", en l'occurrence une nouvelle édition du premier tour, pour permettre aux électeurs regrettant leur vote du 21 avril de symboliquement se rattraper. Pour le Conseil, "ces agissements sont incompatibles avec la dignité du scrutin".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Démission? Une voix pour ici!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76392926?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76392926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76392926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76392926' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76353914</id><published>2002-05-09T12:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-11T04:11:05.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BRAVO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La réplique de Claude Lanzmann à ces écrivains grotesques et sordides comme Breyten Breytenbach qui fustigent Israel avec toute leur haine et leur poison est un long et&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--275071-,00.html"&gt; magnifique article &lt;/a&gt;publié dans &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; d'aujourd'hui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Breytenbach, sait-on, est poète. Il l'était peut-être. Il n'est plus aujourd'hui qu'un rhéteur emporté par son emphase : il n'y a en lui ni émotion vraie ni compassion authentique pour les Palestiniens. Habité, hanté de vide, il ne peut que mesurer l'énormité de ses proférations, mais, incapable d'y renoncer ou de faire marche arrière, il réagit par l'escalade et la surenchère.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme José Bové, Breytenbach n'avait jamais posé un pied ni en Israël ni en Palestine : "Je n'ai vu Israël que rapidement, en arrivant et en partant, après avoir passé une nuit dans l'hôtel Intercontinental David de Tel-Aviv, luxueux mais sombrement désert...", écrit-il sans rire. Désert, et pour cause : les "martyrs" ceinturés d'explosifs découragent les rassemblements de touristes dans les lobbies des palaces. Après deux nuits et quatre jours, voici donc les conclusions auxquelles est parvenu M. Breytenbach : "L'horreur de ce que vous faites nous submerge", "atrocités", "bain de sang", "massacre d'innocents", "crimes de guerre", "crime contre l'humanité", "terre effrontément volée", rien de plus ici que le b a ba du discours ordinaire de la propagande victimologique.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lire absolument. Merci à Pierre Briançon de l'indispensable blog&lt;a href="http://eparses.blogspot.com/"&gt; Eparses &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76353914?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76353914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76353914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76353914' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76344562</id><published>2002-05-09T07:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-12T11:40:37.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WISHFUL THINKING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This editorial piece in today's &lt;i&gt;Le Monde &lt;/i&gt;shows that the suicide attack that killed 14 people, 11 of them French, in Karachi yesterday acts as a &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--275101-,00.html"&gt;painful reminder &lt;/a&gt;to the French that islamic terrorism has not vanished with the fall of the Taliban. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;C'est un dur réveil pour l'Europe tout entière qui, passé les élans de solidarité avec les Etats-Unis au lendemain du 11 septembre, serait volontiers retournée à sa quiétude antérieure. Alors que les Etats-Unis se sentent toujours "en guerre contre le terrorisme", avec tous les excès que des explications schématiques peuvent entraîner, les Européens avaient tendance à penser que le plus dur était passé et que les Américains exagéraient.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, many here were hesitant to help the US in their war on on terror, "they are over-reacting" was the left's argument to explain their quick-fading solidarity with the US. After moving demonstrations of sympathy for the victims of 9/11, such as firemen organizing fundraisers for their American colleagues, people here chose to focus on the suffering of the Palestinian people and went back to attacking American policy, particularly after Bush's 'Axis of Evil' remark. It was back to the same apathy towards international events, we had a lot of fun mocking the Anthrax crisis and Bush for being so 'stupide' and 'simpliste'. Today, it's our turn to suffer. Yesterday, TV was showing the wives and mothers of the deceased as they learned the death of their loved one and it was suddenly over with the sarcasms. Will it last?         &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76344562?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76344562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76344562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76344562' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76306222</id><published>2002-05-08T08:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-09T10:25:15.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;BON MOTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Très bon &lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3232--274817-,00.html"&gt;édito&lt;/a&gt; de Pascal Bruckner dans &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; dans lequel il analyse le sentiment d'angoisse par rapport à l'identité française qui a débouché sur le 21 avril.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"La France est un pays qui ne s'aime plus, vit dans la conscience désolée de sa grandeur perdue et se complaît à la fois dans le misérabilisme et la suffisance. Il lui manque et cet orgueil d'exister si frappant chez les Américains. (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous vivons de la façon la plus aiguë les conséquences de l'émancipation individualiste commencée dans les années 1960. La dissolution des figures de l'autorité, le refus de la responsabilité, la réduction de la liberté au caprice, le discrédit de la loi assimilée à l'arbitraire, sapent les fondements mêmes du lien social. Triomphe du chacun pour soi qui va de pair avec les demandes les plus exorbitantes adressées à l'Etat et à la société.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Face à cet infantilisme débridé générateur de goujaterie mais aussi de solitude, il s'agit de retrouver le sens du collectif, le goût du "vivre-ensemble", qui garantisse nos droits et définisse nos devoirs. Réinstaurer la juste frontière entre le souci de soi et le souci du monde, redéfinir les limites du tolérable et de l'insupportable, tel est l'enjeu dans ce moment historique que nous traversons."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merci à &lt;a href="http://douzelunes.blogspot.com/?/2002_05_01_douzelunes_archive.html"&gt;Douze Lunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76306222?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76306222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76306222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76306222' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76297654</id><published>2002-05-08T01:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-08T01:34:08.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ISLAMIC TERRORISM SPARES NO ONE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tel Aviv, Israel - &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/08/international/middleeast/08MIDE.html"&gt;15 Israelis dead &lt;/a&gt;- cause: islamist suicide bomber&lt;br /&gt;Karachi, Pakistan - &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Bombing.html"&gt;10 French dead&lt;/a&gt; - cause: islamist suicide bomber&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the French finally going to realize that IslamoFascists (as Andrew Sullivan calls them) target Western culture as a whole, not just Americans and Jews? Are the French finally going to understand terrorism has no justification and that it is just the most grotesque and vicious act there can be? Are the French finally going to stand up for the victims of terror instead of symphatizing with and trying to understand and appease terrorists? Or are going to have to wait until they drive a plane into the Montparnasse tower in Paris?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76297654?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76297654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76297654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76297654' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76279159</id><published>2002-05-07T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-07T15:31:04.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voyez sur cette &lt;a href="http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_a/ipc_a-1/a_map/pal-e.html"&gt;carte &lt;/a&gt;comment "l'Autorité Palestinienne" voit Israel. Et oui, c'est le site officiel de l'AP. Thanks to &lt;a href="http://alongview.blogspot.com/?/2002_05_05_alongview_archive.html"&gt;Andrew Long&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76279159?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76279159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76279159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76279159' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76277150</id><published>2002-05-07T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-07T14:32:38.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;R.I.P.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pierre Briançon a traduit une longue &lt;a href="http://eparses.blogspot.com/?/2002_05_05_eparses_archive.html"&gt;citation &lt;/a&gt;de Pim Fortuyn qui nous éclaire sur le personnage. Plus je lis et plus je me demande comment les médias français peuvent le qualifier de 'leader d'extrème droite' même après sa mort. On voit bien que le Professeur Pim n'avait rien à voir avec Le Pen. Il réclamait que les immigrés musulmans traitent mieux leurs femmes, dénoncait l'excision, le fait que épouses doivent marcher 5 mètres derrière leur mari ou l'incitation à la violence des imams islamistes. Pro-européen mais contre la bureaucratie inutile, pour la dépénalistion des drogues 'douces', pour les marriages homosexuels, pour le libre-échange, il était plutôt un mélange entre Chevènement sur le plan moral et Madelin sur le plan économique. C'est ce que j'appelle un conservateur, pas un extrémiste. A qualifier d'extrémiste quiconque ose réagir face aux maux qui minent l'Europe, on ne fait qu'attiser la violence politique.    &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76277150?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76277150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76277150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76277150' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76255571</id><published>2002-05-07T01:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-07T01:57:01.940-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA GAUCHE PATHETIQUE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Parti Communiste n'a eu que 3% des voix aux élections du 21 avril (contre 9% en '95). Mais apparemment ils n'ont pas compris qu'ils n'ont plus aucune place dans un pays développé comme le notre: alors que les socialistes veulent créer l'union pour les Législatives, les communistes se plaignent de l'hégémonie du PS et veulent plus de candidats aux législatives. Mais qui a encore besoin des communistes??? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendant ce temps, Arlette Laguiller &lt;a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/020505/5/2kt8n.html"&gt;refuse&lt;/a&gt; de s'allier avec la Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire d'Olivier Besancenot. Mais pourquoi, vous demandez vous, puisqu'il n'y a aucune différence entre leurs 'programmes'? Et bien Laguiller reproche à Besancenot, comme aux socialistes de "s'être prostitué devant Chirac"!!! Et oui, Besancenot a appelé à voter contre Le Pen (mais il n'a jamais dit 'votez Chirac') pour sauver la République, c'est la pire erreur aux yeux de Laguiller, et pour cela elle affirme: "Je vois mal, dans ces conditions, comment nous pourrions faire une alliance pour les élections législatives" C'est completement irréaliste et cela confirme mes intuitions: jamais la gauche de ce pays ne s'alliera pour gagner tant qu'une partie de celle ci souffrera d'une cécité peu commune vis à vis de la réalité. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76255571?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76255571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76255571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76255571' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76255255</id><published>2002-05-07T01:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-07T14:04:43.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;OOH LA LA!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The Big Easy' avec Dennis Quaid et Ellen Barkin était à la télé hier soir. Mon Dieu, elle est trop bien! Damn!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76255255?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76255255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76255255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76255255' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76238040</id><published>2002-05-06T16:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-07T01:18:28.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;MALKOVICH RULES!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un 'post' très intéressant d'Andrew Sullivan pour nous français sur John Malkovich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Truly weird outburst from John Malkovich the other day. Asked at a debate at the Cambridge Union whom he'd like to fight to the death, Malkovich named anti-Zionist Scottish MP George Galloway, who never saw an Islamo-fascist terrorist he couldn't sympathize with, and Robert Fisk, another fervently anti-Israeli fiction writer for the Independent. "I'd rather just shoot them," Malkovich said. Malkovich, however, is no obvious Americanophile. He lives with his girlfriend and two children in the South of France in order to insulate his offspring from some of the puritanism he sees in American popular culture. Does this mean that Fisk and Galloway are even out of bounds for Francophile Hollywood exiles? Are these Saddam sympathizers so extreme in their pathological hatred of all things Israeli and American that even John Malkovich draws the line?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vous parie qu'il ne doit pas être content de pays d'adoption si il est tellemment pro-israélien.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76238040?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76238040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76238040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76238040' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76237396</id><published>2002-05-06T15:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-06T15:52:27.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WHAT THE...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember the Palestinians happily dancing and firing shots in the air on 9/11? Well, Dutch Muslims are at it too, &lt;a href="http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200205061751000265362_aolns.src"&gt;celebrating &lt;/a&gt;Pim Fortuyn's assasination. Is France next? &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76237396?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76237396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76237396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76237396' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76236391</id><published>2002-05-06T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-06T15:24:32.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;EUROPE ON THE BRINK&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn has been &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1971000/1971423.stm"&gt;shot dead &lt;/a&gt;on Monday night. He was known for his open homosexuality and anti-immigrant views. I am getting really afraid of what the political scene is turning into here in Europe. French extreme-right politician Bruno Megret, a longtime ally of Le Pen, blamed the French left for inciting hate. I think that's a little simplistic, but it did not help that mainstream politicians here call anyone who dares to say we should limit immigration a 'extremist' or a 'fascist'. Fortuyn was no Le Pen, Italy's Berlusconi is no Le Pen, and still, we call them 'fascist' without thinking twice about it. Both sides of the spectrum are getting bolder and taking tougher stances and this does not presume well. Our European societies are becoming much more violent and suddenly America looks like a much safer place. Something's got to give here and I bet you it will take a while until we admit that the left's permissive and irresponsible policies towards violence and intolerance are to blame.     &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76236391?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76236391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76236391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76236391' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76232846</id><published>2002-05-06T13:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-06T13:58:53.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ADVICE NEEDED!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I started this blog 3 weeks ago, I had nothing but French visitors. This week, Americans have taken over: I get 3 times as many visits from North America than from my own continent! People are urging me to write more English! What am I supposed to do? Should I keep writing in French and add my contribution to the growing French blogosphere or should I just reach the bigger 'market'? Maybe I should keep writing in both French and English like &lt;a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/"&gt;Emmanuelle Richard &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://opinionatre.blogspot.com/"&gt;Luc Bossi&lt;/a&gt; do, but hey, they live in California and I live in rainy and socialist Rennes, France. But then again, I am moving back to the U.S. later this year, so maybe I could wait. I don't know! What do you guys want? Please let me know what you think.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76232846?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76232846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76232846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76232846' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76231252</id><published>2002-05-06T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-06T13:04:30.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;A GAUCHE TOUTE!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pierre Briançon du blog 'Eparses' &lt;a href="http://eparses.blogspot.com/?/2002_05_05_eparses_archive.html"&gt;n'aime pas &lt;/a&gt;du tout la nouvelle direction que prend le PS pour gagner les législatives:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Tout indique que le PS a désormais choisi d’écouter les Emmanuelli contre les Strauss-Fabius, et quand François Hollande annonce qu’il sera “tenu compte des messages des électeurs”, on entend surtout que le PS a surtout retenu de cette grande baffe les scores d’Arlette et Besancenot - et qu’il envisage d’y faire face en donnant le coup de barre qui reprendrait en pire le programme de Martine Aubry. Dans cette panique conceptuelle, c’est un peu Jospin qu’on assassine. Et pour tous ceux qui souhaitaient que le PS s’attache à stimuler la création d’emplois avant de déployer son énergie à éviter les licenciements, une catastrophe est en formation, qui pourrait faire revenir la gauche vingt ans en arrière, la rejetant toujours davantage dans une fonction de contestation extérieure au système - et aux réalités gestionnaires."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il ya quand même quelquechose de positif ici: au moins on est sûr que cette 'nouvelle gauche' va rester cantonée dans l'opposition pour un bout de temps! On aura les consevateurs modérés au gouvernement avec comme seules alternatives les progressistes autour de Bayrou et Madelin et la droite dure du FN. Alors que la France retrouvera la voie de la croissance, on pourra oublier aux oubliettes du passé la gauche qui confirmera à chaque élection sa déconfiture du 21 avril 2002. Enfin, peut-être que je rêve peut être un peu ici.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76231252?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76231252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76231252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76231252' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76219191</id><published>2002-05-06T06:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-06T06:57:30.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CARTOON GALORE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit Daryl Cagle's &lt;a href="http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/France-Hate/main.asp"&gt;cartoon index &lt;/a&gt;for a nice collection on France, mocking the election fiasco and the anti-semitism phenomenom. Great stuff!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76219191?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76219191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76219191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76219191' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76196474</id><published>2002-05-05T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-05T15:57:41.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LA GAUCHE HYPOCRITE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour &lt;i&gt;Le Monde&lt;/i&gt; Chirac est "&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--274401-,00.html"&gt;otage de sa victoire&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"François Hollande, le patron du PS n'a pas tardé à le souligner, la gauche peut à juste titre revendiquer sa part de ce succès. De même que l'ensemble des électeurs ont submergé l'extrême droite, de même la gauche a noyé sous le nombre la victoire chiraquienne."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il me paraît bien bien déplacé pour les socialistes de se revendiquer le succès de Chirac. S'il ne sont pas contents de Chirac, ils n'avaient qu'à s'assurer que Jospin soit au second tour. On ne peut pas apeller à barrer la route à Le Pen et ensuite demander à Chirac de ne pas appliquer son programme. En effet, la motivation des électeurs de gauche était d'empêcher Le Pen d'arriver au pouvoir et ils ont eu ce qu'ils voulaient puiqu'il n'a eu que 18%. Et maitenant, ayant atteint leur objectif premier, ils ne cessent de dire que Chirac n'a gagné que grâce à eux. Aux dernières nouvelles, on ne peut avoir le beurre (Le Pen battu) et l'argent du beurre (Chirac qui ferait une politique de gauche). C'est ridicule.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76196474?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76196474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76196474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76196474' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76192857</id><published>2002-05-05T13:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-05T13:23:38.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CHIRAC BACK FOR 5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hooray!!! Le Pen only got 17% of the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/international/05WIRE-FRAN.1.ready.html"&gt;vote &lt;/a&gt;tonight, so I am not leaving the country just yet! Just yesterday, Le Pen could feel he was about to lose, as he 'predicted' mass fraud in today's election. Tonight, he &lt;a href="http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200205051419000235777_aolns.src"&gt;said &lt;/a&gt;Chirac "won by soviet methods", meaning he mobilized all the media and the people against Le Pen. What a sore loser! Now we have to give Chirac a majority in the House so that he can actually implement his policies. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76192857?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76192857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76192857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76192857' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76186150</id><published>2002-05-05T09:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-05T09:14:30.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;LES BOULES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je crois qu'on va tous se serrer entre nous à 7:59 ce soir en espérant ne pas voir le visage de Le Pen se desssiner à la TV. Même si on est presque certain qu'il ne peut pas passer, la surprise du 1er tour nous rend suspect. Tout est possible! Nouvelle encourageante: la participation à 5:00 est bien supérieure à celle du 21 avril et même à celle du 2ème tour de '95. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76186150?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76186150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76186150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76186150' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76184803</id><published>2002-05-05T08:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-05T08:19:55.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;SEXY EXTREMISTS?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the biggest issue facing the French extreme-right is an image problem. Our extremists here really look ugly. The one-eyed, large, hainous-looking Jean Marie Le Pen, the small, cowardly Bruno Mégret, the aryan, mean looking Carl Lang, they make it hard to trust and like them. Look at the Austrian Jorg Haider, and the Dutch gay muslim-hating Pim Fortuyn, now they look handsome. God, Even David Duke has some charisma. I don't think the French extremists are going anywhere until they get a makeover.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76184803?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76184803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76184803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html#76184803' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76157279</id><published>2002-05-04T10:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-04T10:11:56.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;CONSPIRACY?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3226--274079-,00.html"&gt;Les violences contre les mosquées se multiplient&lt;/a&gt;. J'attends la réaction de José Bové. L'Autorité Palestienne est-t-elle derrière cela? Ou alors est-ce le Mossad qui a réalisé qu'il avait trob bien fait son boulot en brulant les synaguoges et veut maintenant équilibrer la donne? &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76157279?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76157279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76157279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76157279' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76153010</id><published>2002-05-04T06:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-04T07:01:29.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DESABUSE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maurice G. Dantec &lt;a href="http://laspirale.org/pages/afficheArticle.php3?id=133&amp;lang=fr"&gt;commente &lt;/a&gt;le choc du 21 avril depuis Montreal ou il s'est éxilé après avoir réalisé que la France a perdu toute chance de survie dans ce monde. Ca fait très peur, c'est très cruel mais je ne peux pas m'empêcher de savourer ce portrait d'une France aveugle, à la dérive, ou beaucoup de gens s'accrochent à un idéalisme utopique d'une autre époque au lieu de faire le saut dans la modernité et la responsabilité. Une France ou le pouvoir politique entend encore guider les gens, tels un père des enfants, dire le bien et le mal et en même temps rester aveugle aux pires urgences et sourd aux plus évidentes des préoccupations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Vous pouvez pleurer toutes les larmes de votre corps, « avoir honte » d’être soit-disant français, vous pourrez organiser toutes les déambulations manifestatoires que vous serez en mesure d’imaginer, entre Bastille et République comme il se doit, vous avez voulu vivre dans votre rêve foireux de gauchistes (post)révolutionnaires, et vous avez essayé de l’imposer, en douceur, ou à la cosaque, aux populations de ce pays qui, on le sait depuis longtemps, n’ont jamais eu peur de réserver quelques bonnes surprises aux instituts de sondage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le réveil va être brutal. Prévoyez les chaloupes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prions ensemble pour que vous n’ayez jamais besoin d’appeler à l’aide les méchantes forces armées impérialistes de l’Atlantique-Nord afin qu’elles viennent vous tirer du bourbier. Je reprendrais alors sans état d’âme vos pétitions datant du Kosovo et de l’après 11 septembre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonne chance à vous tous.&lt;br /&gt;Et encore bravo."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76153010?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76153010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76153010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76153010' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76059266</id><published>2002-05-01T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-01T17:28:42.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;DECEPTION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://up_yours.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_28_up_yours_archive.html"&gt;Dawn Olsen&lt;/a&gt; nous dit que les Palestiniens sont ecoeurés du 'massacre' de Jénine. Non pas parce qu'il ya eu des &lt;a href="http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020501-5587072.htm"&gt;morts&lt;/a&gt;, mais parce qu'il y en pas eu assez à leur goût: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Palestinian officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity have restated the death toll at the Jenin refugee camp at 56, down by 444 from the original claim of 500 during the two-week Israeli assault. This drop in numbers has caused concern and panic within the Palestinian community, and a new marketing campaign to portray the Israelis as the bloodthirsty cannibals that they are has begun.&lt;br /&gt;According to reports in the region, Palestinians have been seen digging up corpses and strategically placing them amongst the rubble. Eyewitness accounts have also backed this claim and added that once the corpses have been dumped, Palestinians have been calling U.N. officials over saying, "Look, look, more dead bodies.""&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saisissant.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76059266?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76059266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76059266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76059266' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76050574</id><published>2002-05-01T13:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-01T13:10:04.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;TOO MUCH FRENCH-BASHING?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe commentators and pundits in the U.S. make too much of a fuss about anti-semitic violence in France. Sometimes they take it a little far, as if most of the population was, and had been anti-semite for years. This is just not true, of course. Not everybody here is rallying behind the Palestinians and comparing Ariel Sharon to Hitler. But what I do find comforting in these denounciations in the American media and blogoshere is precisely what is missing here: the sentiment that attacking Jews is a very dangerous path for people to take, because it can lead to the unthinkable. Also refreshing is the belief that anti-semitic violence can not be assimilated to ordinary delinquency, like it is often said here by politicians and Muslim leaders. There can be no excuse for such behavior and American commentators have understood that. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76050574?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76050574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76050574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76050574' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76041557</id><published>2002-05-01T08:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-01T08:25:30.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;MORE CALDWELL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La remarquable 'cover story' du &lt;i&gt;Weekly Standard &lt;/i&gt;de Christopher Caldwell, "&lt;a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/187bvgea.asp"&gt;Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie&lt;/a&gt;" est commentée, souvent encensée sur les blogs du monde entier. En voici un extrait éclairant:  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"With London its only rival, Paris is the media and intellectual capital of the Arab world, much as Miami is capital of the Hispanic world. As a result, beyond terrorism, the weight of fundamentalist Islam--and the anti-Semitism that goes along with it--is making itself felt in ordinary French life. According to the literary scholar Eric Marty, one professor of literature at the University of Paris was unable to teach the works of Primo Levi (including the Auschwitz memoir If This Is a Man), because his Arab students booed him out of the classroom. "Kenza," a young beurette who was on the French reality-TV show Loft Story (a sort of NC-17-rated equivalent of Survivor), complains that she got kicked off the show last season because "television is controlled by the Jews." A friend of mine was working out at his gym near Strasbourg and got to talking with a friendly beur about British prime minister Tony Blair. "Don't believe anything Blair says," the man told my friend. "Don't you know his real name is actually Bloch?" (Bloch is a common Alsatian Jewish surname.)" &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76041557?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76041557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76041557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76041557' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76038243</id><published>2002-05-01T06:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-01T06:32:31.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WHO WILL LEAD US INTO THE NEW MILLENIUM?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diane E. de &lt;a href="http://letterfromgotham.blogspot.com/"&gt;Letter From Gotham&lt;/a&gt; a intégré les enseignements du 21 avril:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France needs either a Ronald Reagan or a Rudy Giuliani to survive. Take your pick. Chirac is only a continuation of the rapid decay of France as a country and a culture. Or perhaps, of its morphing into a truly frightening entity: a launch-pad for a true collaboration between a modern leftist movement and Islamic fascism hardline conservative . There's a pretty prospect for you to dwell upon.&lt;br /&gt;To survive (if it can at this point) France needs a tough, hard bastard who can run with the ball in a way that Le Pen, who really is a thug cannot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76038243?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76038243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76038243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76038243' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-76036528</id><published>2002-05-01T05:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-05-01T11:49:11.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;PARTY'S OVER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kofi Annan may cancel the UN probe in what Palestinian propaganda called 'massacres'. That's too bad for the Palestinian militants who had been &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&amp;cid=1020084577795"&gt;preparing &lt;/a&gt;for the arrival of UN investigators:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp are inflating the number of residents killed during Operation Defensive Shield by adding bodies of residents buried in a local cemetery to a mass grave that contains the bodies of 26 residents killed in the IDF operation, the army said yesterday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The IDF Spokesman said that Palestinians had begun removing bodies from a cemetery located near the government hospital in the camp to the mass grave, bringing the total number of bodies to 50. In addition, PA officials have instructed residents to refrain from searching for additional bodies buried under rubble in the camp and wait and do so in the presence of the UN fact-finding team due to arrive there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the army, Palestinian officials have paid residents left homeless to rent accommodations in Jenin, but have demanded that they return to the camp and be present during the day when UN personnel visit. Residents have also refrained from repairing structures damaged in the camp, at the request of PA officials. They have been instructed to erase any militant symbols and hide weapons, and refrain from taking any militant action while the UN teams are present."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-76036528?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76036528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/76036528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#76036528' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75972343</id><published>2002-04-29T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-29T12:16:46.643-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;SNL ROCKS!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://emmanuelle.net/"&gt;Emmanuelle &lt;/a&gt;nous fait découvrir cette &lt;a href="http://bigbuttonscorp.com/"&gt;parodie &lt;/a&gt; d'une publicité du bureau Français du tourisme par la meilleure émission satirique de la télévision américaine: 'Saturday Night Live" sur NBC. La France, havre du savoir vivre et... de la haine des juifs! Révoltant mais si drôle! Regardez-la!  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75972343?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75972343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75972343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#75972343' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75970960</id><published>2002-04-29T11:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-29T15:25:13.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;NE PAS DIABOLISER, MAIS...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien sûr il ne faut pas diaboliser les 20% d'électeurs qui ont voté à l'extrême droite. Beaucoup d'entre eux ont envoyé un message de désespération aux autres candidats, surtout à la droite et aux communistes. Ils voulaient dire "occupez vous de nos vrais problèmes", "cessez de nous ignorer, de venir nous voir pendant les campagnes électorales et d'aussitôt après vous retirer dans votre tour tour d'ivoire". Pas de diabolisation, donc, mais quand même, quand on entend certains électeurs d'extreme droite, on en a froid dans le dos. Pas les petits vieux dans les villages paumés qui ne savent pas trop pourquoi ils ont voté Le Pen, ceux-là on aurait presque pitié pour eux, mais ceux qui savent qui est vraiment Le Pen. Hier soir au Journal de France 2, on a vu un de ces spécimens qui vous font réaliser que le FN n'est pas un parti comme un autre: une dame qui sortait du 'Paquebot', le QG du FN à St Cloud, annonce à la caméra "On va les faire courir tous ces juifs!!!". Quand le reporter lui demande de répéter, elle s'en prend à lui: "Ah ils sont tous juifs dans les médias, regardez-vous, ce faciès, ce visage, vous etes trop juif, trop juif pour comprendre". Voila l'électorat de base, de principe du FN, voila le piège dans lequel tant de déçus de la politique sont tombés.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75970960?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75970960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75970960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#75970960' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75927432</id><published>2002-04-28T09:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-28T09:36:20.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;L'ONU DECRIDIBILISEE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--273478-,00.html"&gt;L'éditorial &lt;/a&gt;du Monde de hier "Jénine et Grozny" est éclairant sur l'hypocrésie totale de la Commission des droits de l'homme qui est instrumentalisée par la Russie et la Chine qui espèrent faire oublier leurs violations abominables des droits de l'homme les plus élémentaires en stigmatisant la riposte d'Israel face à la terreur palestinienne. Cela fonctionne assez bien pour l'instant puisque des pays comme la France (surprise?)sont tombés dans la panneau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;C'est une tradition et elle a été respectée. Chaque année, la commission des droits de l'homme de l'ONU bat des records d'hypocrisie. Sa session annuelle à Genève voit certains des Etats qui piétinent le plus massivement les droits de l'homme - la Chine et la Russie, par exemple - échapper à toute condamnation.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...)Premier acte : la commission se penche sur l'offensive israélienne en Cisjordanie. Elle vote le 15 avril, avec le soutien de la France, un texte stigmatisant Israël pour "les tueries massives" perpétrées contre le peuple palestinien. Moscou et Pékin sont au premier rang de l'offensive. Deuxième acte : quatre jours plus tard, vendredi 19, la commission rejette toute condamnation de la Russie pour la situation en Tchétchénie. Dans ce dernier vote, la Chine, qui a échappé à l'évocation de la situation au Tibet ou au Xinjiang, a apporté son soutien à Moscou, au nom de la "lutte antiterroriste" et de la défense de l'intégrité territoriale de la Fédération de Russie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour justifier leur vote, certains Etats ont fait valoir une affaire de date. La destruction d'une partie du camp de réfugiés de Jénine en Cisjordanie (sans doute de 50 à 80 morts) a eu lieu en avril, alors que l'anéantissement total (plusieurs dizaines de milliers de tués) de la capitale tchétchène, Grozny, une ville de 450 000 habitants, par les Russes remonte à 1999. L'argument relève de la chicanerie. Car, sans diminuer en rien les souffrances de la population palestinienne et sans atténuer en rien la condamnation de la politique d'Ariel Sharon, force est de constater que la situation en Tchétchénie est chaque jour plus tragique. Elle ne connaît aucune amélioration. L'armée poursuit une politique de l'horreur que confirment toutes les sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...)Les forces russes entendent terroriser, afin de le soumettre, un peuple qui a déjà connu un calvaire : peut-être 150 000 morts depuis la dernière offensive, celle de 1999, alors que seuls 300 000 à 400 000 Tchétchènes vivraient encore à l'intérieur du pays, sur une population d'environ 1 million de personnes avant la guerre. Les autres ont été forcés à l'exil dans les Républiques voisines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En refusant de dénoncer ce drame permanent, la commission de l'ONU a perdu encore un peu de sa crédibilité.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75927432?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75927432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75927432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#75927432' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75925704</id><published>2002-04-28T08:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-28T08:25:55.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;WAR CRIMES IN JENIN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oui il y a bien eu un massacre dans le camp de Jénine. Mais son auteur n'est pas l'armée israélienne qui a fait son possible pour épargner des vies innocentes, mais les combattants palestiniens qui se sont servis de leur familles, de leur amis comme boucliers humains. La tactique palestinienne rapelle celle de Sadaam qui regroupait les civils autour des entrepots d'armes chimiques lors des frappes de l'OTAN: les fabriques d'explosifs, les entrepots d'armes, les caches d'hommes étaient à Jénine stratégiquement dessiminés dans les zones les plus habitées. Un général israélien &lt;a href="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&amp;s=hochman042402"&gt;décrit &lt;/a&gt;une maison de trois étages avec au premier une fabrique de bombes, au second des civils entassés et au troisième des snipers attendant les forces israéliennes. Si il y a eu tant de morts civils, c'est encore une fois parceque les combattants palestiniens n'accordent aucune valeur à la vie des leurs. Qu'attendre d'autre d'une culture qui porte en héros la bombe humaine qui fera plus de dégats que la précédente? De l'autre côté, les israéliens ont choisi d'éliminer les terroristes en faisant du porte à porte et en s'exposant à des pièges explosifs omniprésents et à des guet-apens dont des enfants étaient parfois des instruments forcés. Au lien de cela Israel aurait pu choisir la facilité et la sécurité de ses hommes en bombardant de loin la zone truffée de terroristes. L'arme la plus perverse des palestiniens consiste à exploiter la faille des israéliens qui eux ont une conscience morale. Puisque les européens refusent de penser qu'un peuple soit tombé aussi bas dans la haine, cela permet aux palestiniens de se poser en victimes et de se dire que la manipulation les menera loin. Ne tombons pas dans ce piège. Oui ce qui s'est passé à Jénine est une tragédie, mais pas celle que l'ONU et les palestiniens veulent nous dicter.  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75925704?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75925704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75925704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#75925704' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75921622</id><published>2002-04-28T03:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-28T03:18:11.596-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;POUJADE VOTERA CHIRAC&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pierre Poujade &lt;a href="http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,706577,00.html"&gt;regrette &lt;/a&gt;avoir aidé Jean Marie Le Pen a entrer sur la scène politique en 1956. "C'est la pire chose que j'ai pu faire" dit-il en accusant Le Pen d'avoir menti sur son passé. L'électorat Chirac va maintenant de Poujade à la LCR, c'est ce que j'appelle un sursaut populaire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75921622?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75921622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75921622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_28_archive.html#75921622' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423976.post-75909885</id><published>2002-04-27T18:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2002-04-27T18:09:07.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;UN AUTRE MONDE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;nbsp&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lors de sa visite au Texas pour rencontrer George W. Bush, le prince Abdullah d'Arabie Saoudite s'est appliqué à rentrer en contact avec le moins de &lt;a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/042702dnnatsaudis.93e5d.html"&gt;femmes &lt;/a&gt;possible. Et cela marche aussi pour l'avion qui le transportait: aucune femme ne devait établir aucun contact que ce soit avec l'équipage. Le prince a donc requis que seuls des hommes aiguilleurs puissent aider l'avion dans son approche à l'aéroport de Waco. De même, il était impensable qu'une femme puisse se trouver sur le tarmac pour acceuilir l'avion. Les autorités ont accepté, certainement pour éviter un incident diplomatique. Venu à Crawford pour demander à GWB de tempérer son soutien à Israel, le prince est reparti avec cette &lt;a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/ap/20020426/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_saudi_arabia_66&amp;printer=1"&gt;réponse &lt;/a&gt;du Président: "Nous ne laisserons pas Israel se faire écraser". Way to go Dubya!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3423976-75909885?l=leolebrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75909885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3423976/posts/default/75909885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://leolebrun.blogspot.com/2002_04_21_archive.html#75909885' title=''/><author><name>L�</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02588072513793950946</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
