Monday, April 16, 2007
Le Pen is angry at Chirac for suggesting French responsibility in the "deportation" of its Jews during WW2. Well, at least he recognizes it as a bad thing...wait, that's not necessarily true, is it? He recognizes that other people recognize it as a bad thing: Le Pen says France needn't apologize
"The president plays a part in the way in which one presents the national memory. Thus Jacques Chirac had recognized the responsibility for the French state in the deportation of Jews," said Le Pen in an interview with Le Parisien.
Chirac was the first French president to acknowledge the state's responsibility when he made his comments. According to Le Pen, Chirac's remarks are scandalous because they taint the country's image. He added that the subject was a very sensitive one from which presidents and prime ministers alike shied away...
..."To criticize Chirac's courage is not surprising and shows clearly that Le Pen is an anti-Semite," Simon Wiesenthal Director and Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff told The Jerusalem Post. "You have to remember, Le Pen is the one who said the gas chambers were nothing but a detail to minimize the importance of the Holocaust."
In September 1987, Le Pen stated that the gas chambers were "a point of detail of the history of the Second World War," a statement that cost him a €183,200 fine from the French Justice Department...
I wrote over a year ago about Le Pen's reaching out to the French Islamists: The Right Welcomes the Islamists (worth reviewing again), and Adam Holland points out that this is still going on: Birds of a fascist feather flock together.
