Do Europeans hate Arabs?
By Patrick Seale On Sunday, May 5, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right-wing agitator and Arab-hater, will challenge Jacques Chirac for the presidency of France. The possibility of a Le Pen presidency has shocked democratic Western Europe to the core. France is still trying to come to terms with the meaning and consequences of this domestic political earthquake as well as to the damage to its international reputation. For the past three decades, Le Pen has been a discredited and marginal figure in French politics, with a small following on the far-right of the political spectrum. His racist rhetoric and fascist sentiments attracted widespread condemnation. But his startling breakthrough on April 21 in the first round of the French presidential elections, when he came a close second to Chirac and eliminated socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from the presidential race, has put him at the very center of French politics. Le Pen is highly unlikely ever to occupy the Elysee Palace. But his dramat
