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  * Judith Bergman: European Temper Trumptums <#toc_item_9328>
  * Yves Mamou: The Secret War of /Agence France Presse/ against Israel
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  European Temper Trumptums
  <https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9328/trump-europe-panic>
  Europe Holds "Panic Dinner"

by *Judith Bergman*  •  November 15, 2016 at 5:00 am

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    The arrogant claim to the moral high ground by European elites has
    no basis in reality.

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    There is no respect for freedom and democracy on a continent where
    citizens, such as the politician Geert Wilders, are arrested and
    prosecuted by in a court of law for speaking their minds freely
    about topics that the authorities find it expedient not to debate in
    public.

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    Freedom, respect for the rule of law, and people's race, religion
    and gender have never been /less/ respected and protected in Germany
    during the post-WWII era than under Merkel. German authorities have
    completely failed to protect women, Christians and others from the
    chaos unleashed by the mass, unvetted, immigration of mainly Muslim
    migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The rule of law is
    anything/but/ "respected" in Germany.

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    Not everyone is "panicking". UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson,
    rejected the invitation and told his colleagues to end their
    "collective whinge-o-rama" about the U.S. election result.

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    Critics of the U.S. election omitted, however, the runaway
    lawlessness, divisiveness and corruption that American voters
    declined to reinstate.

"A world is collapsing before our eyes", tweeted the French ambassador 
to the United States, Gerard Araud, as it became clear that Donald Trump 
had won the US presidential election. Although he later apparently 
deleted the tweet, the sentiment expressed in his tweet encapsulates the 
attitude of the majority of the European political establishment.

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, described the 
reaction to Trump's victory across Germany's political spectrum as 
"shock and uncertainty." Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen described 
Trump's win as a "heavy shock." German Justice Minister Heiko Maas 
tweeted: "The world won't end, but things will get more crazy".

Green party leader Cem Özdemir called Trump's election a "break with the 
tradition that the West stands for liberal values."

Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said:

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  The Secret War of /Agence France Presse/ against Israel
  <https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8742/agence-france-presse-israel>

by *Yves Mamou*  •  November 15, 2016 at 4:30 am

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    Biased information about Israel in the French press is not an
    episodic occurrence. It is a systematic one. The main engine of this
    biased information industry is blatantly the /Agence France Presse/.

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    It is so thoroughly a "pro-Palestinian news agency" that this French
    institution, does not see anything unethical about hiring
    Palestinian activists as reporters: "Nasser Abu Baker, the chairman
    of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, the leading force for the
    boycott of Israeli journalists and media, also writes for the
    influential French news agency."

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    The same bias appears in the media and news agencies all over the
    developed world, including Reuters, the BBC and the AP. Why, when it
    comes to Israel, is such a misinterpretation of reality so
    generalized in the press? The only answer is that a war is in
    progress: a war of delegitimization.

When Palestinians murder Israelis in vehicle-ramming attacks, Agence 
France Press never labels the murderer a "terrorist." All of them are 
"activists," "militants" or "attackers." But when a Tunisian-born 
Islamist terrorist murdered 84 people in Nice, France in July 2016, by 
ramming a truck into a crowd of people (pictured above), the AFP called 
that "terror." (Image source: Sky News video screenshot)

On July 15, 2016/,/ after the truck ramming that killed 84 people in 
Nice, France, /Agence France Presse/ (AFP) released a report entitled, 
"When Vehicles Become Weapons". It is the duty of a large news agency 
such as AFP to list, for its customers, examples of countries that are 
suffering from vehicular terrorism.

Concerning Israel, we can read in the third paragraph: "In Israel and 
the Palestinian territories, car-ramming attacks have featured heavily 
in a wave of violence that has killed at least 215 Palestinians, 34 
Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese since October last 
year".

A naïve reader might understand that in Israel and Palestinian 
territories, Jews and Muslims -- or Israelis and Palestinians -- find it 
amusing to use their vehicles to kill innocent passersby. He might think 
also that Jews are far better players of this gamer than are Muslims, 
because they killed "215 Palestinians" against only "34 Israelis."

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