Make of it what you will, the translated article is here: http://watchingamerica.com/larepubblica000009.html

The original is here: http://www.repubblica.it/2005/j/sezioni/esteri/ciagate2/ciagate2/ciagate2.html

Very wierd. IN fact, too wierd.

More telling to me was the quotes from the Islamic leader who wrote the scathing Editorial. That’s the most important part of the article in my opinion.

only slightly more than 40,000 Jews in Italy.”

not in Rome,but in ITALY.

that is stunning.

sheesh.

Roger, an unrelated issue I’ve posted on before is worthy of your interest: the question of Scalia’s “fainthearted originalism.”

(http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_10_30-2005_11_05.shtml#1130967291) Will Justice Roberts fall into this trap? That’s my fear. Constitutional scholar Randy Barnett is depressed about the prospects for conservative control of the Supremes. (“Originalism in Crisis) http://volokh.com/posts/1130967291.shtml) I suspect Alito will prove the better of Bush’s two appointments. But this points out the risks of recruiting technocratic Justices like Roberts versus visionaries like Thomas.

You’ve simply ducked considering these issues, Roger. But in fact, reconsidering our history and considering alternative ruling regimes is inherent to this debate. To me, it’s the New deal difference of the authoritarian rule by men versus the framer’s vision of rule by law. Therefore it’s fundamentally important to defining America.

Returning to the topic of Judaism in jeopardy and the related one of the Europe’s Muslim Fifth Column: perhaps we ought to be glad Paris is burning, night after night. It pressures the leftist relativists to get a clue, and empowers those who reject their sophomoric “turn the other cheek” cheek. It’s like the long, slow, bottoming out of the drunkard playing out in Euroland.