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David Pryce-Jones believes that France has done more damage to the Middle East than any other country. France encouraged the mass immigration of Arabs and that huge and growing minority in the country now believes that it has rights and claims which have not been met. This minority also believes that Israel should not exist. Middle East geo-politics are spreading from French soil to an increasingly Islamized Europe.

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"David Pryce-Jones has long been an indispensable guide to the realities of the Arab world, and now, with the chilling story he so brilliantly tells in Betrayal, he

broadens the focus to encompass the role played by French perfidy in helping to create the threat to us all of political Islam."

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    * Publisher: Encounter Books (October 25, 2006)
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The French Connection....to the Arabs, December 16, 2006
By 	Frank Bunyard (Elk Grove, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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David Pryce-Jones has written a brief, readable and illuminating account of France's Middle East foreign policy; starting with Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, the French invasion of Algeria in 1830, and continuing to the present day.

France's motive was to emulate and even surpass the British Empire. "The British might have India, but the French would move into, and ultimately colonize, the Arab World." The institution most responsible for the attempt to realize this grandiose scheme was The Foreign Ministry, referred to in France as "Quai d'Orsay." Pryce-Jones gained (through an anonymous source) access to the archives of Quai d'Orsay, and his researches are the basis for his book, "Betrayal".

Early on the French conceived their grand France-Arab empire as "une puissance musulmane" - "A Muslim Power." And this fantasy dovetailed neatly with the anti-Semitism that had long existed in France and reached its height during the Vichy occupation by Germany.

The main part of Pryce-Jones' study shows how these two ideologies, anti-Semitism and pro-Arabism, have made France an unreliable ally of Western values and interests. This was true of the lead-up to WWI, the inter-war period, and modernity since the conclusion of WWII. Many instances of French perfidy in dealings with the Western Powers, and particularly the United States, are related in compelling detail. Anti-Americanism fit well with Anti-Semitism to advance France's standing with the Arabs and these became recurring themes in the machinations of the Quay d'Orsay.

Yet, in one of those fateful ironies of history, France is now beset by a demographic explosion of unassimilated Islamic Arabs within its own borders. One out of every three children born in France is Islamic. Arabs and Muslim youth routinely go on riots, shouting "Allahu Akbar", burning cars and vandalizing property. In 2005 there were 110,206 recorded incidents of urban violence, and 45,588 vehicles had been burned. This seems incredible, but Pryce-Jones provides the documentation.

The lust for empire and power have resulted in the betrayal of democracy in France, as well as its own national interest. Yet France continues to behave in defiance of reality, assuming that it has to pursue its own political agenda regardless of the present day context of Islamic expansion and militancy. This context of political Islam that France has aided and abetted now threatens France, the entire continent of Europe, and all the West.

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Excellent history of French diplomacy and designs in the Middle East, January 10, 2007
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If the behavior of France in the Gulf War (Kuwait) and in the War on Terror have mystified you, this book provides a most helpful history of French diplomacy and international goals since the nineteenth century. France has viewed itself as an Arab / Muslim power (they are not quite identical) since colonial times. Since World War II, France has had to play a spoiler role in certain international dealings in order to claim some relevance for itself. It was Chirac who kept the Clinton sponsored accords between Israel and Arafat from being signed. It was France that Saddam looked towards to keep the United States from invading in the current conflict. And rather than France having increasing influence in the Arab world, it is the Arab-Muslim world that is transforming France both politically and culturally.

Contrary to some notions of this book, it is NOT about proving that France is anti-Semitic. The arguments in the book are more complex than that. To my reading, David Pryce-Jones demonstrates how France's long standing view of the world and its place therein has made a profound contribution to our current troubles and their own confused situation. Anti-Semitism has been a part of the tradition and history of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry - referred to as the Quai d'Orsay because of where its headquarters are, and is reflected increasingly in its policies towards Israel, but this is not the focus of the book.

The book opens with the current state of Arab unrest inside France and the rising number of blatant attacks against Jews because they are Jews. The author then begins to tie it to a centuries old anti-Jewish tradition of with the French diplomatic class. More than one French diplomat has expressed the idea that the only real future for the Jews is to assimilate and to cease to be Jews (others have said this as well, but not from the diplomatic corps in an ongoing way).

The role and tension between French Designs in the Arab world and Zionism is also discussed, as is the role of the French in saving the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin, from being tried with the Nazis after WWII. The author also later compares the French attitude towards Haj Amin with its treatment of the Ayatollah Khomeini and its protection of him and its aid to his return and rise to power in Iran.

A great deal of the book also discusses the connection between the literary culture and the foreign ministry and the anti-Jewish subjects and treatments by certain authors over the past century and more. It is most interesting to read how virulent some of them are and how those strains exhibit themselves even today.

The discussions of France and Saddam and Yassir Arafat are also quite enlightening and how France has dragged its feet and worse to try and thwart U.S. power and goals in the region. The author notes that France had hoped to have the influence in Iraq with its huge oil reserves as the U.S. has with Saudi Arabia and its oil.

All this and more makes the current behavior of France more understandable if no less frustrating. I think it is a must read if you want to understand our current relationship with France and its history in the Middle East.

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Unpleasant France, December 8, 2006
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A good case is laid out that many of the current problems between Arabs and Israel can be laid directly at the doorstep of the Quai d'Orsay. France's misguided policies over many years have been driven by anti-Americanism, a desire to keep a colonial toehold in North Africa and the Levant, and religious intolerance towards the Jew. This argument rings true to my ear.

Short chapters, shorn of unnecessary verbiage, help make Mr. Pryce-Jones' book a pleasant reading experience.

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