Scoundrel Times

Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews, by David Pryce-Jones (Encounter, 171 pp., $23.95)

IN October 1980, PLO terrorists set off a car bomb near a synagogue in Paris’s rue Copernic. France’s prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, condemned the attack. Not only had the terrorists killed two Jews but “two innocent French persons” as well.