Thoughts on upcoming european elections

Sunday are the elections for the european parliament. Since I am not voting, I didn't follow the whole debate, until today, when unsolicited and unnounced a letter fell into my mailbox, a letter containing the lists of different parties which were putting themselves up for grabs in the european parliamentary squable. I have to admit it is with great indifference that I was looking at these party lists until I came across something, that I am told, has already sparked quite a debate at home - a french anti-zionist party. If you think that I am lying, exaggerating or dreaming, I am afraid, this is the evidence: http://www.partiantisioniste.com. For those of you french speakers, the clips on their website are quite surreal. Depiste Frances rather ambiguous reputation towards the Jews throughout the history and to this day, I was always at its defence, pleading exaggeration of my opponents. Today, I have to say I am still puzzled, to say the least, why in France of all places there springs up an anti-zionist party. If you told me that happened in Saudi Arabia or in Lebanon, I could swallow it since the first has some hard core ideological issues and the second has had a few less than friendly encounters with the Israeli army.

But, what could be the objectives of an anti-zionist party in French elections for the european parliament? Do they hope that once they get in, they can force the European Union with its weak, if not non existent foreign policy, to force Israel to do something, whatever that something might be? In my humble opinion, even if they did make it to the European parliament, they couldn't stop Israelis from eating hummus, let alone doing something on the political front. Though, on a secondary thought, hummus is political, so perhaps not the best example.

For those of you french speakers, I suggest you go the source to hear the rumblings - perhaps you will succeed in capturing some meaning where I have not been able to find any, and where again, in my humble opinion, there is none. For those that have not yet found the courage to affront the conjugations, I don't blame you and will do my best in breaking down their key thesis, or what I was able to make of them.

First, zonism is the nervous system of society. So, now it appears, we are back to the global jewish conspiracy thesis. Here comes the Principles of the Elders of Zion, or I am sure they would have made their appearance in due time if I cared to watch their videos for long enough. But, just before my patience ran out and I pressed the stop button, I caught another interesting one. The other anti-zionists in France are not for real, they are fake guys with fake "institutions". And what institutions would that be? Would he be referring to the vender of the Principles of Zion someone in the Parisian banlieue (worse than Harlem before Bloomberg became mayor of New York, the French police are afraid to even enter).

So, maybe I misunderstand something from the party webiste, so I go back to the infamous ballot to see who are the so-called representatives of this outfit? Well, turns out that the sample is informative to say the least. One is noted as a "mother of a family and head of a company". Whose family and whose company? All that business sounds rather mysterious. Another one is a president of the association "banlieue s'exprime". Another is noted as a 25 year old whose principal occupation is anti-zionist. Ambitious lady. Maybe we should enter that one in a guiness book of records as the most ridiculous occupation in the world. Another presents herself as unemployed and member of the same party. Clearly a winner and a social leader that could have done much with her life that hating something she probably knows close to nothing about, but let's be kind and give her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps she knows something. The big question is "what"?

Last but not least, I couldn't help but notice another candidate whose title is so french in its denial of everything that i cannot really do it justice by translating it in french - "militant altermondialisme et décroissance." And now the drum roll please, the head of the party, a certain 43 year old man whose last name is, no joke, mbala mbala (as in not a typeout, but for real) and his title is "humaniste révolutionnaire". And here, I rest my case for even in all my years in the Soviet Union, I have not heard such non-sense.