Éric Zemmour: France's Last Chance for Survival?

In this mailing: - Guy Millière: Éric Zemmour: France's Last Chance for Survival? - Raymond Ibrahim: Indifference to a Christian Genocide - Amir Taheri: Two Questions about the Vienna Charade [] [Éric Zemmour: France's Last Chance for Survival?]( by Guy Millière • January 23, 2022 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - When French President Emmanuel Macron speaks, it is only about the pandemic. Political analysts think that if he manages to avoid all other topics, his reelection will be a certainty. If he does not, everything could turn out any which way. - "No, the great replacement is not a fantasy". — Éric Zemmour, candidate in France's upcoming presidential election, YouTube, December 15, 2021. - "Four hundred thousand Muslim immigrants enter France each year. In five years, that makes two million more Muslims. These Muslims go to live in the Muslim areas and do not integrate... What do you think that means?" — Éric Zemmour, YouTube, December 15, 2021. - "We see violence in our cities and towns.... We see hatred of France and its history becoming the norm... You abandon, without reacting, entire districts of our country to the law of the strongest... if a civil war breaks out, the army will maintain order on its own soil.... No one can want such a terrible situation... but yes, once again, civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well". — Open letter in Valeurs Actuelles, signed by thousands of professional soldiers who asked that their names not be made public, May 9, 2021. Éric Zemmour, a leading candidate in France's 2022 presidential elections. (Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images) Paris, December 18, 2021. The Algerian national soccer team wins the Arab Cup in Qatar. Tens of thousands of Algerian supporters, waving Algerian flags, rush onto the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Shop windows are smashed. The unrest lasts until nightfall. Slogans are shouted: "Long live Algeria", "By Allah, the Koran!" -- and also "Fu*k France!" and "Fu*k Zemmour!" The police are ordered not to intervene. They are attacked anyway. The next day, Jean Messiha, a former member of the National Rally Party, notes on television: "The great replacement and the ethnic hatred, we can see them". Éric Zemmour, a Jewish candidate for the French presidency, does not comment. He simply states in an interview: "sadly banal scenes". [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Indifference to a Christian Genocide]( by Raymond Ibrahim • January 23, 2022 at 4:30 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern.... despite several human rights organizations characterizing the persecution meted out to Nigeria's Christians as a "genocide." - Worse, not only did the Obama State Department for eight years refuse to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern; during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State (2009-2013), she, too, refused to designate Boko Haram in Nigeria as a "terrorist" organization... despite [its] being a jihadist group whose adherents have murdered more Christians and bombed more churches than the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined. - Her refusal persisted despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and more than a dozen senators and congressmen for her to designate Boko Haram. - "The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn't use. And nobody can say she wasn't urged to do it. It's gross hypocrisy... The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials." — A "former senior U.S. official," quoted by Josh Rogin in the Daily Beast, May 7, 2014. - Apparently such is the official unwavering and consistent response, whether under Obama/Clinton or now under Biden: Nigeria is not a "country of particular concern" — even as a genocide continues to be waged against its Christians. On November 17, 2021, the U.S. State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern.... despite several human rights organizations characterizing the persecution meted out to Nigeria's Christians as a "genocide." Pictured: The smoldering ashes of structures in the village of Badu, Nigeria on July 28, 2019, after Boko Haram terrorists attacked a funeral procession there, murdering 65 people. (Photo by Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images) A recent and ostensibly insignificant "label change" by the U.S. Department of State sheds light on both President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, as well as on a potential presidential candidate for 2024, Hillary Clinton. On November 17, 2021, the State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern, that is, nations which engage in, or tolerate violations of, religious freedom. It did this despite several human rights organizations characterizing the persecution meted out to Nigeria's Christians as a "genocide." [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Two Questions about the Vienna Charade]( by Amir Taheri • January 23, 2022 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - [T]he new Iranian officials and their media outlets in Tehran have started speaking of the US "paying compensation to the Islamic Republic" and any commitments by Iran being conditional on "verification" of American actions. In other words, Tehran is talking of total surrender by the Biden administration, while Washington hopes to score a low-cost diplomatic victory. - In the case of Vienna talks, it must be clear to anyone who wishes to see that these talks are not about Iran's nuclear program or breaches of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). - The problem the world has with the Islamic Republic isn't its quest for nuclear capability. It is the Islamic Republic's role as "upsetter" of regional and, on a smaller scale, global peace and stability, that is a cause for concern even for China and Russia, which play godfather to it. - Tehran's game plan is to obtain some relief that would give it access to the cash it needs to finance its "upsetting" policies. - Former Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad-Javad Zarif put it succinctly when he said "We've decided to live differently", and part of that difference is to be anti-American without which, he emphasized, Iran would at best be another Islamic Republic like Pakistan that no one would give a damn about. - Muhammad-Reza Naqdi, Cultural Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says the same thing in his words: "The mission of the Islamic Revolution concerns all mankind. The world today faces an ideological vacuum that only our Islamic ideology can fill. Leftist ideologies died long ago and neo-liberalism has failed. What remains is the alternative that we offer to humanity." The new Iranian officials and their media outlets in Tehran have started speaking of the US "paying compensation to the Islamic Republic" and any commitments by Iran being conditional on "verification" of American actions. In other words, Tehran is talking of total surrender by the Biden administration, while Washington hopes to score a low-cost diplomatic victory. Pictured: Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, is seen leaving Palais Coburg in Vienna, venue of the nuclear negotiations, on December 3, 2021. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images) "Cautiously optimistic!" This is how European Union's foreign policy spokesman Josep Borrel sees the current talks in Vienna centered on the "nuclear deal" concocted by then US President Barack Obama six years ago. Whether or not Borrel, who has no meaningful role in the talks, is relevant, is beside the point. The point is that all participants in this charade are keen to pull a rabbit out of the Viennese hat. The Biden administration is desperate for a diplomatic "success" by reversing one of Donald Trump's "faux pas". The Tehran mullahs are also keen to ease their cash-flow problem and claim another "historic victory" for Islamic diplomacy. The Europeans, that is to say, Britain, France, and Germany which are directly involved, hope to maintain a semblance of relevance in international politics. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022