MY SAY: THE PARIS MARCH TO NOWHERE- JE SUIS UNIMPRESSED
Oh goody my friends are swooning as they did during the “Arab Spring”…..they gush….all this solidarity has got to lead somewhere good. Huh? Will it end the European’s collusion with the Arabs to diminish, demonize and ostracize Israel? Will the sabers that Jihadists use to behead infidels suddenly become plowshares? Open the cages in the zoos..the lions will lie with the lambs. Oh puleez!
A march has to have more value than street theatre.
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where American Blacks and White citizens had been campaigning for voting rights. King told the assembled crowd: ‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes’’
On 6 August, in the presence of King and other civil rights leaders, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
On Sunday, December 6, 1987, the eve of the Washington, D.C. Summit between Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, an estimated 250,000 people marched in the National Mall in an unprecedented display of solidarity for Soviet Jewry. The Rally was timed to take place 24 hours before Gorbachev was to arrive in Washington for a two-day summit conference on disarmament. It was preceded by several events on the preceding Friday, including the giving of testimony by five refuseniks to the U.S. Helsinki Commission, a news conference, a Congressional prayer service, and a fast vigil.
It was “the largest, best-organized protest rally in American Jewish history.”A shofar was sounded. Pearl Bailey sang “Let My People Go”. Refuseniks recently released from Soviet prison addressed the crowds, including Felix Abramovich, Yosef Begun, Yuli Edelshtein, Misha and Ilana Kholmyansky, Ida Nudel, and Natan Sharansky. Subsequently Jews wre permitted to leave and millions did.
Those were demonstrations that accomplished great things.
The Parisian show of shows will accomplish no more than a five minute “warm feeling”…..rsk
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