10/30/2024–|Last updated: 10/30/202406:11 PM (Mecca time)
The Secretary-General of the Moroccan Justice and Development Party (opposition), Abdelilah Benkirane, criticized the position expressed by French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, Tuesday, regarding the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, while delivering a speech before the Moroccan Parliament on the occasion of his state visit to Morocco a few days ago.
Benkirane said in a letter in French addressed to Macron today, Wednesday, “We express to you our extreme astonishment at the content of your speech regarding the war of annihilation waged by Israel in Gaza.”
The day before Monday, Macron began an official visit to Morocco that ended years of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries, during which he signed bilateral agreements. Yesterday, Tuesday, he delivered a speech before members of Parliament in both chambers in which he praised the historical relations between France and Morocco.
Macron said in his speech that the operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on the settlements surrounding Gaza on October 7, 2023 was “a terrible barbaric attack committed by Hamas against Israel and its people,” and that “Israel has the right to defend its people against such a threat.”
A resistance and liberation movement
Benkirane added in his message that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “is like the Moroccan National Liberation Movement (a group of organizations and parties that confronted the French colonization of Morocco), and the Free French Forces (the forces gathered by General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 to confront the German invasion of France during World War II.” ) and the National Liberation Front in Algeria (which faced the French colonization of Algeria), and many liberation movements in the world.”
He stressed that “Hamas was and will remain a resistance movement exercising its legitimate right to defend its people against occupation and genocide, a right guaranteed by international law,” and that “and all Palestinian resistance factions are rightly resisting against colonialism, occupation, ethnic cleansing, the Great Replacement, and genocide, and against all these barbaric operations.” committed by Israel, which does not date back to October 7, 2023, but rather began a long time ago and has continued without interruption for more than 76 years.”
Benkirane’s letter stated that “what Israel is doing, as a settler entity, illegally occupying the land of Palestine, has nothing to do with the right to self-defense,” and that “the crimes it has committed for decades, and the escalating genocide it has practiced in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and the plan “The generals who have been implementing it in northern Gaza for weeks have no parallel in the history of atrocities and atrocities.”
The letter continued, “Describing these crimes as a right to self-defense constitutes a grave injustice and a heinous insult to the Palestinian people, who have been oppressed since at least 1948, and to the hundreds of thousands of civilian women and children who have been exterminated or mutilated by the Israeli army since October 7, 2023, and it is an encouragement and license.” By killing the barbaric occupation army to continue this ethnic cleansing and these unprecedented massacres.”
The responsibility of France and the international community
She added that France is “the country of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen that established the right to resist persecution,” “the land of resistance against Nazism,” “the people of freedom and brotherhood, and the friendly and close country to the region, especially Lebanon.” It bears a historical responsibility for overturning facts, history, and responsibilities. “.
Benkirane said – in his message – that France bears responsibility “for the humanitarian tragedies and war crimes committed systematically by the occupation and the Israeli army against civilian women and children, and the systematic destruction of vital infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship.” It also bears responsibility for Siege, starvation, and denial of food, water, and medicine to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
The message of the Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party recalled the “historical, moral and legal responsibility” of the international community and “particularly major powers such as France to provide relief to the Palestinian people and save them from the war of extermination and displacement to which they are subjected and to pressure Israel to immediately end the policy of apartheid and total annihilation in Gaza and all of Palestine.” And Lebanon.”
Benkirane called on the international community to “correct the historical mistake and great injustice it committed in 1948 by establishing a colonial entity based on a blatant colonial and imperialist lie under the slogan (a land without a people for a people without a land),” considering that “this entity is the basis of all the chaos and disasters that have continued since… That history in Palestine, in the region and in the world.”
He also called for “the establishment of a Palestinian state without delay and without conditions; a free and independent Palestinian state on the land of Palestine with Holy Jerusalem as its capital,” and considered this to be “the legitimate and inalienable right of the Palestinian people, without which peace cannot be achieved and for which all resistance remains legitimate.” .
