Advice can save lives

Editor: President Jacques Chirac of France is angry with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel because the latter recommended French Jews exit France for Israel. The reasons for the recommendation are the ever-increasing anti-Semitism and destruction of Jewish values that is proceeding apace in France.
Had the Jews of France and other European countries been given similar advice in the 1930s and had they heeded such advice and emigrated while they could, one can only imagine the millions of Jewish lives that would have been saved from the scourge of the Holocaust.

Undoubtedly Chirac is quite aware of French complicity in the Second World War; he should be taking vigorous action against anti-Semitism instead of criticizing a potential savior of his country's Jewish souls.

I. Bill Gruenthal
Burnaby