Word: jdl
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...French Jewish Students. This week began with firebomb attacks on synagogues in the suburbs of Paris and Strasbourg. Similar fire-bombings or attempted arson have occurred in Sweden, Britain and Belgium. Three ethnic Arab students in Paris were attacked by seven alleged members of the Jewish Defense League. (The JDL denied any involvement.) French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie this week responded to the beatings by pleading that neither "our Muslim compatriots" nor French Jews should be targeted as a means of replicating the Gaza conflict in France. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...