Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Miami’s technology ecosystem suffers from a peculiar form of misrecognition. Outside observers still reach for postcard clichés—beaches, nightlife, spectacle—while insiders sometimes reach for the opposite cliché: the inevitability of ascent, the lazy prophecy that Miami is simply “the next” of some earlier hub. Both narratives are flattering in their own way, and both are analytically weak.
The al-Durah affair is the greatest media manipulation of modern times; it had a global impact and acquired historical significance. Since the broadcast of the France 2 report on September 30, 2000, a worldwide jihad has been launched against the Judeo-Christian West.The Second Intifada was ignited by these images; Bin Laden used Muhammad al-Durah to incite hatred before 9/11; Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan in 2002 in front of a screenshot of the France 2 report. The entire Arab and Muslim world commemorates the "martyrdom of little Muhammad" with streets, schools, monuments, and stamps bearing his image.Until France 2 admits to having staged the broadcast on September 30, 2000, this affair will have to be revisited to uncover the truth. This must be done for history, in the same way that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were demystified or the innocence of Captain Dreyfus was established; this is what Pierre-André Taguieff explains in the dossier of the magazine Causeur of February 2026.
As for these Jewish figures, they are first and foremost left-wing before they are Jewish. And there is nothing more dangerous for the Jewish people and Israel than left-wing Jews. They are the ones who have led Israel to its worst defeats, to its worst compromises. They are the ones who got one of the worst American presidents toward Israel elected: Barack Obama. They are the ones who got the Islamist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York… Left-wing Jews are narcissistic masochists, corrupt financially or intellectually.… This affair illustrates the profound bad faith of the left and its conspiracy-minded cronies who claim that the French press is serving "Zionist propaganda." In reality, from France Télévisions to Le Monde, including Libération and L'Humanité, the overwhelming majority of the media landscape adopts, on the contrary, an obsessively hateful stance towards Israel, as everyone could see after the massacre of October 7th. … Leftism is a mental illness!
L’affaire al-Durah est la plus grande manipulation médiatique des temps modernes, elle a eu un impact planétaire et a acquis une dimension historique. Depuis la diffusion du reportage de France 2 le 30 septembre 2000, un djihad mondial a été lancé contre l’Occident judéo-chrétien.
La seconde intifada a été embrasée par ces images, Ben Laden a utilisé Mohamed al-Durah pour inciter à la haine avant le 11 septembre, le journaliste du Wall Street Journal Daniel Pearl a été égorgé au Pakistan en 2002 devant une capture d’écran du reportage de France 2. Tout le monde arabo-musulman commémore le « martyr du petit Mohamed » avec des rues, des écoles, des monuments et des timbres à son effigie.
Tant que France 2 n’aura pas admis avoir diffusé une mise en scène le 30 septembre 2000, il faudra revenir sur cette affaire pour obtenir la vérité. Cela doit être fait pour l’Histoire, de la même façon que les Protocoles des Sages de Sion ont été démystifiés ou l’innocence du capitaine Dreyfus a été établie ; c’est ce qu’explique Pierre-André Taguieff dans le dossier du magazine Causeur de février 2026.
« Le faux reportage de France 2 sur l’affaire d’Al-Durah témoigne de l’hostilité des médias contre Israël » : Philippe Karsenty interview de Etienne Fauchaire :
Quant à ces personnalités juives, elles sont avant tout de gauche avant d’être juives. Et il n’y a pas plus dangereux pour le peuple juif et Israël que les Juifs de gauche. Ce sont eux qui ont conduit Israël aux pires défaites, aux pires compromissions. Ce sont eux qui ont fait élire un des pires présidents américains vis-à-vis d’Israël aux Etats-Unis : Barack Obama. Ce sont eux qui ont fait élire l’islamiste Zohran Mamdani à la mairie de New York… Les Juifs de gauche sont des narcissiques masochistes, corrompus financièrement ou intellectuellement.… Cette affaire illustre la profonde mauvaise foi de la gauche et de ses affidés complotistes qui affirment que la presse française serait au service d’une « propagande sioniste ». Dans les faits, de France Télévisions à Le Monde, en passant par Libération et L’Humanité, l’écrasante majorité du paysage médiatique adopte au contraire une ligne obsessionnellement haineuse envers Israël, comme chacun a pu le constater après le massacre du 7 octobre. … Le gauchisme est une maladie mentale !
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a seminal, very successful, and much-appreciated address to the Munich Security Conference
He emphasized that the United States and Europe are effectively inseparable, that the alliance between them had repelled the mortal threat of Soviet communism, and that any thought of it being obsolete or superfluous was nonsense.Although he did not address the subject in these terms, Rubio confirmed that the controversy over Greenland is, like President Trump’s threats not to defend those ostensible allies that took insufficient steps to defend themselves, an illustration of the president’s technique of opening with a shock-and-awe demand or assertion well beyond the solution that he is prepared to accept.
Rather than chastising his European audience for failed socialistic economic policies and for such porous borders that they were frittering away European civilization, as Vice President J.D. Vance did at the same forum a year ago, Rubio took the stance that Western Europe and the United States had made substantially the same mistakes contemporaneously. He emphasized that President Trump is successfully leading America out of this policy morass, and recommended the same course to his audience.
“We do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker,” he said. “This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us, are willing and able to defend it. ... We do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it, for we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.”… He was emphatic and eloquent in stating that the last thing the United States and its government wished was the end of the transatlantic era, and that although Americans live in the Western Hemisphere, they have a permanent connection to Europe.Rubio recounted the policy failures of both the United States and Europe that led to the deindustrialization that reduced the wealth of the West, its productive capacity, and its independence, as well as the loss of sovereignty over supply chains. He concluded that this “was not a function of a prosperous and healthy system of global trade. It was a foolish but voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for our needs and dangerously vulnerable to crisis.”
Rubio denounced mass migration as “a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.”
“Controlling who and how many people enter our countries is not an expression of xenophobia,” he said. “It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty. And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people. It is an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies in the survival of our civilization itself. And finally, we can no longer place the so-called global order above the vital interests of our people and our nations.”
… What he is really aiming at is for Europe, which is of a vastly greater economic and military power than Russia, to live up to its strategic potential, while assisting in the creation of a subtle containment strategy opposite the Chinese involving the principal countries of India, Japan, and Australia. Ultimately it would also include Russia, China’s ancient rival in the Eurasian landmass, after Russia has successfully been induced out of the smothering embrace of Beijing.
It’s remarkable that even with so steep a butcher’s bill, Hitler does not hold first place among the 20th century’s murderers. That position is occupied by Chairman Mao Zedong, whose efforts to bring socialism to China killed more than 40 million Chinese, the vast majority of whom starved. Hitler must compete among historians for second place.
His rival is the Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin.
Like Mao, Stalin led a revolutionary leftwing regime that sought to bring equality and justice to one of the most economically and socially backwards nations on earth. Like Hitler, who was born in Austria, Stalin also came from the outer reaches of the empire he would come to terrorize.
… In Ukraine, this campaign of deliberate retaliation, remembered today as the “Holodomor,” caused the deaths of about 3 million, as Ukrainian-grown grain was taken and transported to feed the people of Moscow and other Russian cities. Whole villages died, but not before eating their pets, boiling shoe leather for soup, and grinding bones to make flour. Many went mad, their bellies distended, their limbs withered and strengthless. Cannibalism was far from unheard of, to include within families, to include mothers and their children. All in accordance with Stalin’s orders, all in the name of science and progress.
… Meanwhile, back at the regime’s center, among Soviet elites, Stalin feared dissent and plots to displace him from power — some real, most imagined. Such fears are the fate of any absolute dictator. To allay them, Stalin unleashed waves of purges of various elites in the state, the military, and the professions, culminating in the late 1930s in a period now known as the Great Terror. Over half a million Russians were executed during this period, many of them taken from their families in the middle of the night and shot in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison.
… The world was … shocked when in August of 1939 Stalin agreed to a non-aggression pact with Hitler, giving the Nazi dictator a free hand to fight a war in the west while also dividing Eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence. When Hitler invaded Poland in September, Soviet troops marched in as well, dividing the country in two.
Setting aside the unique horror of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust which was still to come, Soviet rule was hardly any less brutal than that of the Nazis, with widespread liquidation (that is, murder) of Polish elites who might resist Soviet imperialism — famously, the execution in the woods near Katyn of over 20,000 Polish military officers, police, intellectuals, and other elites. A small number in comparison to other bloodbaths of the day — an immaterial observation to the families of the dead.
Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, in one of the Soviet dictator’s most notable lapses of judgment: a man who never trusted another living soul in his own country bizarrely trusted Adolf Hitler.
… Nevertheless, the blood of the common Russian soldier, the snow of the Russian winter, and the steel of the American industrial machine prevailed in defeating Hitler in the east. The United States saved Soviet Russia due to a common interest in defeating Nazi expansionism, only then to have to deal with Soviet expansionism, as Stalin postwar imposed iron rule on Eastern Europe and sought opportunities for global communism to expand wherever the free world showed weakness, from West Berlin to South Korea.
… The terrain of the 20th century is made up of rivers of blood and mountains of murdered innocents, piled to the heavens. America’s heroic role in that period was to draw a line and defeat the terror of Hitler, and then contain that of Stalin.
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What has unfolded over the past days is the rarest of things in 21st-century conflicts
a just war. One in which there is moral clarity between good and evil. America and Israel did not embark on this operation in the name of economic or geopolitical interests, but because the world is in danger.… If the Iranian regime succeeds in developing nuclear weapons, as it is trying to do, the world is in danger. If it continues to advance its ballistic-missile programme, Israel and every other country in the Middle East are in danger. If the ayatollahs remain in power in Tehran, the citizens of Iran are in danger.The rule of the ayatollahs is not a “government” in the sense we ordinarily understand the term. It is a terrorist organisation that has hijacked a state. Anyone who has asked in the past 24 hours why Iran’s nuclear programme justifies going to war has been asking the wrong question. The right question is this: what would have happened if al-Qaeda had possessed nuclear weapons on September 11th 2001? Would it have used them against America and Israel? The answer is simple: of course it would have.
on this military campaign, I stand behind the government and behind the operation in Iran.
Why? Because this is not political—it is existential. All of Israel stands united in the face of the Iranian threat, united behind our soldiers and our pilots, united in gratitude to President Donald Trump for the rare leadership and courage he has shown. On this issue there is no opposition and no coalition. In all my years in politics, I do not remember such consensus on any subject.
… The cruelty with which the regime treated young Iranians who asked only for freedom and basic rights is not only heartbreaking; it is a lesson in the character of Iran’s thuggish leaders. The Iranian regime does not hesitate to kill tens of thousands of its own people. Why would it hesitate to kill Americans, Israelis or moderate Muslims in places like the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain?Regimes like this always make the same mistake. They fail to understand that democracy is not a weakness; it is a source of strength. Because they themselves understand only threats and brutality, they assume that if they continue to threaten, no one will dare confront them. Instead, they have awakened the greatest military power humanity has ever known.
… Yet the question of whether this regime of terror survives does not depend only on America and Israel. The elimination of the “Supreme Leader”, Ali Khamenei, is not only justified, as befits the murderous dictator that he was; it could also be the moment when the Iranian people find within themselves the strength to change their lives. Iranian youth showed extraordinary courage when they took to the streets in January. Now we must wait and see whether they will produce their own Nelson Mandela or Lech Walesa to lead them to freedom.
We’re endlessly told to remember and rectify grievances from decades and even centuries in the past. Well all right.
As usual, Donald Trump made a brilliant speech when he announced the attack, reminding us all of nearly a half century of frustration and aggravation.We’re endlessly told to remember and rectify grievances from
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) February 28, 2026
decades and even centuries in the past. Well all right. https://t.co/oREkFfkehx
Related: "But Why Did the Iranian Air Defenses Fail to Activate?"
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries. Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
… It's been mass terror, and we're not going to put up with it any longer.
From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts.
… This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces. I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration and there is no military on earth even close to its power, strength or sophistication.
… Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.
For many years, you have asked for America's help. But you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want.
— Alberta 51 Project (@Ab51_Project) March 1, 2026
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 1, 2026
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Talk about torpedoes circling back…
Days before the Winter Olympics, the country was riveted by scandals that raised questions whether Norwegians abroad had betrayed their national values. U.S. Justice Department files revealed how chummy Norway’s future queen, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. At the same time, her adult son stood trial for rape. The embarrassment extended beyond royalty when police charged former prime minister and past Nobel committee chair, Thorbjorn Jagland, with “gross corruption” over his relationship with Mr. Epstein.Other prominent Norwegian diplomats who have served in international organizations also face scrutiny for their relationship with Mr. Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. The revelations fueled outrage in Norway, where elites, including the royal family, are prized for humility.… But for some, these victories have prompted as much soul-searching as celebration.“Norwegians are simple, sober people, and we see this in the athletes,” said Daniel Roed-Johansen, a columnist who writes about sport and society for one of Norway’s largest newspapers.
… Just as the revelations in the Epstein files showed cracks in Norway’s high-trust society, a recent cheating scandal on Norway’s ski jumping team showed that national sport is also vulnerable to corruption, Mr. Roed-Johansen said.
Related: • Denmark may have free universities and a national health system, but what is its free education and health care actually worth?The skeletons keep tumbling out of the closet.The Epstein case’s slimy grip on the Norwegian elite is only a fraction of how they’ve been screwing over ordinary Norwegians for years.[One of the most recent examples] is Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide apologizing for “mistakes in handling” his own conflict of interest when his son was picked as an intern at the Paris embassy just before Christmas.… The problem is that they often reappear in positions of influence.Translation: He assumed he would get away with it. Just as former Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s thought she could get away with her husband profiting from stock trades influenced by political decisions she made while in office. The “consequence” at the time? She was denied assistance from the Prime Minister’s Office when she asked whether they could effectively babysit her husband’s stock trading if she was ever re-elected. After all, she claimed she had no idea what the man she shares a bed with was doing. Apparently that is not a prime minister’s responsibility.… They seem to believe they can simply ride out such matters, while ordinary citizens would face serious consequences for similar conduct.But that is hardly surprising. They have been getting away with this for years.Over the past decade alone, Norwegian politics has been marked by a steady stream of scandals involving financial misconduct, conflicts of interest, commuter housing abuses, travel expense irregularities, plagiarism in master’s theses, stock trading, inappropriate relationships, and abuse of power. Numerous ministers have resignedIt’s not just Erna’s husband cashing in on his wife’s policies. Anniken Huitfeldt, now Norway’s diplomat in Washington D.C., a job she was handed without applying, which is controversial in itself, was supposedly clueless about her husband’s massive stock trading while she held the post as foreign minister.Then there are the “favours for friends”, what most people would call corruption, along with résumé embellishments and other irregularities.… [The many cases mentioned], emerging from what appears to be an endless closet of skeletons, demonstrate a basic truth: power corrupts. Politicians should not serve more than two terms, neither in ministerial roles nor within the bureaucracy.A System Designed to Protect ItselfNorwegians don’t elect their prime minister or cabinet ministers directly. Governments can appoint ministers whom voters never supported.Politicians cannot be prosecuted for lying to the public. That provision was removed in 2005.… When you add up the changes, raising the threshold for forming new political parties, limiting voters’ ability to alter candidate lists, repealing Section 105, transferring sovereignty to the EU despite two referendums rejecting membership, the result is a democracy made significantly less democratic.An untouchable elite has emerged. One that believes it can apologise on television, express how “deeply sorry” they are, and then “take responsibility by remaining in office.” Jens Stoltenberg did precisely that after the July 22, 2011 terror attacks, accepting “overall responsibility” yet choosing to stay on in order to “implement reforms.” Since then, Norway has endured further attacks. After the Oslo shooting, the security service admitted it lacked oversight of how many Islamist extremists operate in Norway. Yet it priorities “anti-state attitudes”, that is, citizens critical of those in power, as a threat to democracy.Which democracy?A democracy does not survive on self-congratulation and false rankings as “least corrupt in the world.” It survives on real checks and balances, real consequences for abuse of power, and respect for voters’ mandates.When apologies replace accountability, and accountability means remaining in office, the states is not governed by the people. It is an elite managing itself, investigating itself, disciplining itself by temporarily stepping aside, only to return a year or two later.Criticism of the state does not threaten democracy. The total absence of consequences for those who govern does.When skeletons emerge year after year without real repercussions, we’re pastforgetfulness. It is a systemic pattern and problem.… Yet the response is familiar: Apologies, “we are reviewing the matter,” expressions of regret, and proposals for parliamentary commissions appointed by the very institutions under scrutiny.It leaves a bitter taste.That is not justice. It is a controlled, self-contained process in which the same networks rotate back into influence, immunity is preserved, and responsibility is diluted until no one is truly held accountable.… it is merely another chapter in the story of an elite that consistently evades responsibility while ordinary citizens pay the price.How can one claim to live in a democracy when voters are asked to choose between deception and fraud?
