petitefrancaise

Le Figaro is reporting that the Kouachi brothers have been killed by police.

Pulaski

It's tough to be fair and open when you're no bigger than NJ and surrounded by countries and people which want to eliminate you.

Nutek

Location is the first of many things wrong with Israel, and sadly the one that could have been most easily dealt with.

robin1234

You mean, they could have gone with Madagascar, as the Nazis suggested? Or Birobidzhan, courtesy of the USSR?

Nutek

It is hard to imagine anywhere worse than where they ended up. Given that you subscribe to the idea that the State was a good idea to begin with.

robin1234

Seen from today's perspective, I'd have to agree. Go back to 1900, or 1930s, when the pioneers and Zionists were building the proto-state, and from their European colonialist point of view, the quaint levantines and bedouins who lived in those parts probably didn't look very threatening.

sir_eccles

You should read "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon fun little novel where the Jewish state ends up in Sitka Alaska. This was apparently a real possibility at one point.

scrubbedexpat099

Does seem a bit of a stretch complaining about islamaphobia but anti semmetism is OK.

The two brothers seem to be of Algerian background.

robin1234

How do you mean? Who says anti-semitism is OK?

scrubbedexpat099

It was pointed out that the anti Semitism in France is predominantly from Muslims. As it is in the UK.

Amusing if you think about it.

First they came for the Cartoonists and then the Jews.

Sally Redux

Just when you thought it couldn't get any ****ing stupider.

scrubbedexpat099

Ohh yes it can.

And most definitely will.

kimilseung

Paris is small potatoes.
2,000 dead at the hands of Boko Haram.

scrubbedexpat099

Although in a location nobody is bothered about.

Which makes a big difference.

Gordon Barlow

And a million or so dead at the hands of NATO's bombs and destabilising influence. Also in a location nobody is bothered about.