{UAH} Fwd: The Suicide of France

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From: Gatestone Institute <list@gatestoneinstitute.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019, 10:17
Subject: The Suicide of France
To: <bobbyalcantara94@gmail.com>

In this mailing: Giulio Meotti: The Suicide of France Amir Taheri: The Death of Iran's Japanese Dream The Suicide of France by Giulio Meotti  •  June 23, 2019 at 5:00 am         "Frenchness" is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another.... this is not a good recipe. The more the French élites with their disposable incomes and cultural leisure cloister themselves in their enclaves, the less likely it is that they will understand the everyday impact of failed mass immigration and multiculturalism. The globalized, "bobo-ized [bourgeois Bohemian] upper classes" are filling the "new citadels" -- as in Medieval France -- and are voting en masse for Macron. They have developed "a single way of talking and thinking... that allows the dominant classes to substitute for the reality of a nation subject to severe stress and strain the fable of a kind and welcoming society." — Christophe Guilluy, Twilight of the Elites, Yale University Press, 2019. The recent "yellow vests" movement -- whose demonstrators have been protesting every Saturday in Paris, for months -- is a symbol of the division between France's working class and the gentrified progressives. Pictured: "Yellow vests" protestors occupy the steps leading to the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur on March 23, 2019 in Paris, France. "Regarding France in 2019, it can no longer be denied that a momentous and hazardous transformation, a 'Great Switch', is in the making", observed the founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, Michel Gurfinkiel. He was mourning "the passing of France as a distinct country, or at least as the Western, Judeo-Christian nation it had hitherto been presumed to be". A recent cover story in the weekly Le Point called it "the great upheaval". Switch or upheaval, the days of France as we knew it are numbered: the society has lost its cultural center of gravity: the old way of life is fading and close to "extinction". "Frenchness" is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another. For the country most affected by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, this is not a good recipe. Continue Reading Article The Death of Iran's Japanese Dream by Amir Taheri  •  June 23, 2019 at 4:00 am         What he [Nobushuke Kishi, Japan's postwar statesman and prime minister], tried to tell us, in his oblique Shintoist manner, was that politics should be regarded as a public service dealing with issues of real life and not abstractions such as imperial glory. The Iran that Shinzo Abe visited has no desire for the Japanese models, at least as far as the ruling elite is concerned. It is clear that, for the near future, both dreams: Iran's of becoming a second Japan and Japan's of turning Iran into a strategic ally, are dead. The Iran that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited has no desire for the Japanese models, at least as far as the ruling elite is concerned. Pictured: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center) meets with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) and President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran on June 13, 2019. (Image source: khamenei.ir) In a recent column, I talked about Japan's "Iranian dream," the latest sequence of which consisted of Shinzo Abe's visit to Tehran to persuade the mullahs to stop acting as a lone wolf and rejoin the international community. Abe had hoped that defusing the "Iran time bomb" would heighten Japan's international profile commensurate with its status as the world's second-biggest economic power. That sequence of the dream, as we now know, ended with the Japanese Prime Minister being harangued by the Ayatollah and sent packing. Continue Reading Article Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as bobbyalcantara94@gmail.com 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

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