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French President Emmanuel Macron has been meeting with all sorts of foreign leaders: from Vladimir Zelensky to Mahmoud Abbas. Macron was among the first European leaders to recognize a “state of Palestine,” a state without a government and without defined borders, an imaginary state that nonetheless others have recognized, including Macron, as a way to pressure the real state of Israel to agree to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, leaving it stripped of its control of the Jordan Valley, and left with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, rendering the Jewish state vulnerable to an invasion force from the east, that could cut the country in two within a few hours.
All this does not sit well, however, with Macron’s own people. The French want Macron to focus on the country’s domestic problems, and the greatest domestic problem of all, the one that explains the huge rise in government spending, and the anxiety about rising crime, and the widespread feeling that France is being systematically taken over by people who, though they live in France, are not French and do not want to be, for they are Muslims. And as Muslims, the “best of peoples,” (3:110), they are determined to take advantage of every benefit the generous French welfare state provides — that they see as a kind of proleptic jizyah — but do not want to integrate into a society created by non-Muslims, “the most vile of created beings.” (98:6)
“Gallup Poll Shows That One In Every Four French Citizens Wants To Leave the Country, Among Huge Drop in the Confidence in the Institutions,”
27% of the French want to bid adieu.
Failing French President Emmanuel Macron has the ultra-low poll numbers of 11% support – the most unpopular French leader in the last half a century.
Out in the world, Macron is galivanting [sic], trying to meddle in problems beyond his geopolitical reach, and avoiding as much as possible to deal with the serious problems of the French Republic.
And poll numbers released earlier this week reveal just how frayed the social fabric of the country is, at this point.
Euronews reported:
“According to a Gallup study published on Monday, confidence in French institutions has plummeted this year, while the desire to leave France has only grown. Euronews spoke with several French expatriates and prospective expats about their experiences.”
The Euronews report interviews French citizens and expats criticizing the ‘lack of opportunities for entrepreneurs’, the ‘monstrous tax burden’ and the ‘very bad atmosphere overall’.
The “monstrous tax burden” that French people cite as one reason for considering leaving is a direct result of the seven million Muslim migrants now living in France and taking advantage of every available welfare benefit. The estimated cost of state-supplied benefits for those Muslims is the colossal sum of more than $20 billion a year. This does not include the cost resulting from crimes committed by Muslims, including the cost of more police, more judges, more prosecutors and state-appointed defense lawyers, more prisons. Muslims make up about 10% of the French population, but 60% of the prison population.
And “the very bad atmosphere overall” which is cited by French people now contemplating a move outside France can be attributed to the tension and sense of menace created by large numbers of young Muslim males hanging out on the streets of French cities, where shoplifting, street muggings, drug trafficking, and burglaries take place. Single women and Jews are no longer safe in many of those cities. Muslims in France have taken over whole “no-go neighborhoods,” where non-Muslims do not dare to enter except in groups, and that includes firemen and policemen. No other immigrant group elicits such widespread anxiety.
Macron does not dare to admit that France’s overarching problem is its Muslim population. Its enormous cost of Muslims to the state, their high rates of criminality, the anxiety they understandably create among the indigenous French — all this he won’t talk about. The only way to make France a place where all the French, the French de souche, will wish to stay, is to call a halt to Muslim immigration, to swiftly deport all Muslims convicted of minor crimes without bothering to imprison them, and to deport Muslims convicted of major crimes as soon as they have served their prison sentences. In addition, the French state can refuse to provide any welfare benefits to migrants until after they have been gainfully employed for at least five years. That should make the country much less attractive to those who previously could expect a long free ride, as soon as they managed to step inside the Hexagon.
