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...France cherishes the spirit of 1789. Counterrevolutionary commemorations are proliferating. Right-wing Catholics are organizing a huge "Mass for the Martyrs" of the revolution on Aug. 15 in the Place de la Concorde. Local governments in western France helped raise funds for a $7 million movie called Vent de Galerne, which opened last month, about the republican army's savage repression of peasant rebels in the Vendee. In Lyons a historical society is tracing the descendants of 3,000 executed in anti-Jacobin uprisings. "The bicentennial is more an occasion for mourning than for celebration," says philosopher Jean-Marie Benoist...
...widespread. Historian Chaunu calls the retribution "genocide." In 1793 General Francois Westermann had reported proudly to his government, "I have trampled the children under my horses' hooves. I have massacred the women so they will give birth to no more rebels." The new movie about the Vendee uprising, Vent de Galerne, has understandably garnered intense local support and money. Says Jean-Michel Mousset, a trucking-company owner from Ste.- Florence who put up $5,000: "In 1793 liberty, equality and fraternity was on our side, not on the side of the republicans...
...such allegations do more than illegitimately condemn Jackson; they also undermine the importance of the Holocaust. Himmelfarb, for example, was willing to invoke the slaughter of six million Jews to improve the prospects for his political party. I believe others use Holocaust imagery against Jackson to vent racist attitudes. If this continues, how can we avoid the Holocaust becoming a political football...
...religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government joining Likud and Labor. It also made it easier for Diaspora Jews to vent their unease over other issues. Says Alexander Schindler, head of the U.S. Reform movement: "The 'who-is-a-Jew' issue gave license for many to express their cumulative distress...
...original motivation was to avenge the mistreatment of Shi'ites in Lebanon and to vent his hatred of the U.S. and Israel. But U.S. sources say he has become obsessed with trying to secure the freedom of his brother-in-law Mustafa Badreddin and 16 other Shi'ites jailed in Kuwait after a 1983 bombing blitz. Mughniyah launched his subsequent kidnaping and hijacking spree to spring the 17 in a prisoners-for-hostages swap. Among his victims: William Buckley, the CIA station chief, who died in captivity...