[Max Lobovsky]

That is pretty terrible, but strangely enough, some other things caught my eye in your post.

Why should this thread be deleted and not any other aribtrary chit-chat thread? Can we not discuss anything unpleasant here?

And, as a Jew, I think it is probably a bad idea to refer to Jews as a "persecuted race". Most (all?) races have been persecuted at one time or another, and even if Jews have had it particularly worse (I'd say so), there is no need to make it sound like this statement is specific to a certain set of people. It applies to any group that has had some tragedy befall it.

Anyway, the recent surge in anti-semitism in France is really apalling. Europe tends to take a position of morale higher ground in many arguments with the US (Kyoto Protocol, Iraq, Israel, etc) and this really makes them look like a bunch of hypocrites...