Say goodbye to France...

 

... because if this decision is sustained, what's left of French culture is about to be swamped by jihadist extremism.

All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France, a court ruled on Friday.

Deciding on a case brought by a Palestinian mother seeking asylum in the wake of the Islamist Hamas October 7th terror attacks on Israel, France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA) ruled in her favour given the “war methods” of the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza, which the court found were “serious enough to be regarded as methods of persecution.”

The decision overturned a previous rejection from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Effrusion (OFPRA) in November, which noted that the Palestinian woman was not specifically being “persecuted” and therefore could only be eligible for “subsidiary protection”, a lesser form of asylum which only allows for a four-year temporary residence permit rather than the ten years of protection guaranteed to refugees.

The case paved the way for the CNDA to declare that all Palestinians living in Gaza should be entitled to asylum protection in France.

There's more at the link.

I can't blame the Gazans for wanting to be somewhere - anywhere! - else, just as I can't blame poverty-stricken South Americans and Africans with no prospects for any sort of meaningful future wanting to come to the USA to find work and new opportunities.  The problem is, no nation can sustain itself - its own culture, its own nationality - when it allows other cultures and nationalities to swamp its own.

I do believe that any wealthier nation should be willing to help poorer nations, and richer societies should do likewise for poorer ones.  However, that does not mean that richer nations and societies should commit cultural, religious, economic, or any other form of suicide by helping others to such an extent that they destroy themselves.  We can help refugees, and those in need, by sending aid to their own countries, and/or to refugee camps across the border in neighboring nations.  There is no need, and no logical or rational justification, for allowing them to walk across multiple borders and cross multiple nations to reach our territory, and settle here.

The parable of the Good Samaritan is a worthwhile example.  The Good Samaritan provided medical help, accommodation, etc. to the injured man, at or near the scene of the crime.  He did not take the victim back to his own country and put him up in his own village, or his own house.  The former is the sort of aid and assistance I think we should all be willing to provide, within the limits of our own capacity to do so.  France could do the same for the citizens of Gaza by providing aid within the territory, or just outside it in the Sinai Peninsula.  It does not have to bring all Gazans to France to provide help, just as the USA doesn't need to bring refugees and other victims into or nearer to the USA in order to assist them.

I hope this decision by the Court of Asylum will be overturned.  If it's not . . . visit France while its historic culture and monuments still exist, because I fear they won't be there for much longer.  To see what will replace them, visit any of the Islamic-fundamentalist-dominated banlieues in major French cities.  They're not a pretty sight - in fact, they can be very dangerous when their largely foreign residents decide it's time for another riot.  To see the American equivalents, try the Somali enclaves in Minnesota, or the Muslim enclaves in Michigan.

Peter