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Strasbourg, France (JTA)
— French Jewry, the fourth
largest Jewish community
in the world, celebrated the
bicentennial of its eman-
cipation here this week with
expressions of pride in its
French and Jewish heritage
and confidence in its accep-
tance as full-fledged mem-
bers of French society.
Yet no less a personage
than President Francois
Mitterrand saw fit to remind
the assembled leaders of
France's 700,000 Jews that a
resurgence of European anti-
Semitism is not impossible.
The chief of state flew to
this ancient city in eastern
France, long a center of Jew-
ish life, to address a com-
memorative conference
marking the anniversary.
He used the occasion to
question whether tolerance
and the cause of human
rights have really triumph-
ed in the half-century "since
the martyrdom of French
Jewry."
"Some words one hears,
sacrilegious inscriptions and
the desecration of Jewish
graves lead us to believe
that the filthy beast (of anti-
Semitism) still lurks in the
shadows," Mr. Mitterrand
said.
The president came here
as the guest of CRIF, the
Representative Council of
French Jewish Organiza-
tions.
Defiance as well as
vestiges of unease were ap-
parent in the remarks of
former Justice Minister
Robert Badinter, who
chaired the conference.
"The times of the shameful
Jew are over. There will
never again be a shameful
Jew in France," declared
Mr. Badinter, who is Jewish.
"It so happens we are
French. That's the way we
are, born of French parents
or French by the right of soil.
The way we are seen by
others does not bother us
anymore, except when we
find in that look a hidden
spark of hatred."
He was alluding to the
growing popularity of the
extreme right-wing politi-
cian, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a
xenophobic rabble-rouser who
has dismissed the gas cham-
bers as merely "a detail" of
World War II.
"We are neither pro-
vocateurs nor arrogant peo-
ple, but we will never accept
that a difference be claimed
(between Jews and other
French citizens) even for a
`detail,' " Mr. Badinter said.
A recent poll showed that
only 9 percent of the French
electorate would vote
against a Jewish presiden-
tial candidate solely because
he is Jewish. That was down
from 50 percent in a 1966
poll.
The bicentennial com-
memorates the Sept. 27,
1791, decree by the French
Revolution's Constituent
Assembly that granted
citizenship and full rights to
French Jewry after cen-
turies of oppression.
At the time, there were
barely 40,000 Jews in
France, most of them poor
peddlers and shopkeepers.
Although there have been
episodes of naked anti-
Semitism in France, espe-
cially during the Dreyfus
trial in the late 19th cen-
tury, the rights granted in
1791 have been suspended
only once during the past
200 years, from 1940 to 1945
by the Vichy regime, which
stripped French Jews of all
their rights and abandoned
them to the Nazi occupiers of
France.
Bomb Blast
Kills Soldier
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A soldier
of the Israeli-allied South
Lebanon Army was killed
and two others were injured
by roadside bomb explosions
in the security zone Israel
maintains in southern Leb-
anon.
Three bombs detonated at
different times during the
day. Hezbollah, the Islamic
fundamentalist militia,
claimed credit.
.
The SLA retaliated by
pouring heavy gunfire into
Shi'ite villages just north of
the zone from where the
militiamen may have come.
The shelling went on for
six hours, severely damag-
ing houses in four villages,
according to sources of the •
United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon.
The first bomb, the only
one that was fatal, exploded
at about 6 a.m. local time. It
killed an SLA soldier who
was checking a road crossing
near Beit Yahoun, over
which hundreds of Lebanese
villagers would soon pass on
their way to jobs.
A second blast went off a
short time later, near an
SLA outpost adjacent to A-
Tireh village. It caused no
casualities. But a third blast
wounded two SLA men.