It's Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Americans have perhaps taken note that there have been massive demonstrations in two of

our allies, and in particular in France and in Israel.

Both of them have amounted to massive acts of civil disobedience and political protest

that have not happened in recent decades.

Both of them are over big issues, but they are very different issues, and both of them

really demand our attention.

So let's go to Paris first.

What is happening in France?

Massive demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands, and perhaps even more than a million

people in total, they've come out against the current president of France, Emanuel Macron,

and his plan to increase the age of retirement in France from 62 to 64.

Now you might not think that is a big deal, but two millions of people in France that

is a redefinition of France itself.

Of course, France has always been very politically volatile.

And you go back to the French Revolution, you go back to the successive number of French

governments and French constitutions, even just since, say, World War I and World War

II, France is a relatively stable civilization over a long period of time, but a relatively

and notoriously hot situation politically in any short or moderate term.

Macron was considered the Wunderkind, the wonder child of French politics when he was

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