2/6/2024–|Last updated: 6/2/202411:41 AM (Mecca time)
The website “Orient 21” criticized what it said was French President Emmanuel Macron’s pretense of adhering to his positions, which he continued to retreat from with every new violation by Israel in Gaza, and said that his hypocritical words in the face of the ongoing genocidal war in Rafah can only be described as weak. It is too late, because Gaza has been no longer a safe zone for months.
The website explained – in a joint article between its president, Alain Gresh, and journalist Sarah Grera – that Macron did not forget “Israel’s right to defend itself,” and only mentioned one culprit, saying that Hamas is responsible for this situation, benefiting from Israeli exports of impudence to France, and wondered. Website: Who remembers that Macron declared the Rafah crossing a “red line”?
Hollow words
The article pointed out that official France is clearly complicit in what is happening in Gaza, agrees with all the arguments that work to whitewash the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has not taken any concrete measures to stop the attack on Rafah, as if the economic sanctions and symbolic measures to hide the flag and sports boycott were on the eve of the attack. The Olympic Games are only suitable for Russia.
Alain Gresh and Sara Grera pointed out that French diplomacy has not yet commented on the International Court of Justice’s order to stop the war in Rafah, and they said that Macron, and Macron alone, waited 4 days before addressing the court’s order without commenting on it, even though it is binding on all countries except Israel, which ignores it. International and humanitarian law, and its ally the United States and perhaps France, whose complicity in the ongoing genocide has become extremely embarrassing, according to the authors.
They explained that the French Foreign Ministry was content with a press statement full of empty phrases and words such as “the seriousness of the situation” and “discontent,” as if it was no longer the ministry that opposed the American invasion of Iraq, nor the one that led Europe in 1980 to recognize the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, and negotiated with the organization Palestine Liberation, which was denounced by Israel and the United States at the time as a “terrorist organization.”
Even as if it was no longer a permanent member of the Security Council by helping to undermine the credibility of United Nations agencies, as it did with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the wake of the Israeli accusation.
The website believed that a few late invitations, lackluster statements, and just a wordy press release from the Foreign Ministry accompanied by phrases indicating that Israel could be prosecuted for crimes committed by its forces are not enough.
He explained that what is expected from France are protests in the face of the campaign that has been waged for a decade to discredit the court and threaten its leaders, as revealed by the Israeli newspaper “+972”.
“Orient 21” recalled that French Foreign Minister Stephane Ségournet warmly received his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz, in Paris about two weeks ago. He is one of the few leaders mentioned by the International Court of Justice as having made comments that amount to a call for genocide, and Katz thanked his French counterpart for his opposition. Recognizing the Palestinian state and rejecting equality between Hamas and Israel.
Safe partner
The site asked: What can France do to pressure Israel to stop its operations in the Gaza Strip? Recalling that Israeli exports are not disturbed, nor are the deliveries of weapons and ammunition, and that Tel Aviv remains a security partner for Paris, whether with regard to surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition programs that will be used in the Olympic Games or surveillance drones that are used to control the southern borders of Europe.
At the European Union level, Paris opposes – according to the site – those who want to suspend partnership agreements with Israel, and even when students from the Faculty of Political Science, High School, or other peacefully occupy the buildings of their institutions to demand the suspension of training cooperation agreements with Israeli universities, they are dismissed and wrongly accused of anti-Semitism and exposing Their foundation is “For Fire and Blood”.
“Ourian 21” reminded that we must measure what the image of France has become in the countries of the South, and see the French embassy stoned, hear the cries of anger raised by the demonstrators in front of the French Institute in Tunisia, and realize the disappointment of the Palestinians who honored the country of Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac in the past. .
On the internal front, the site concluded that the gap is widening every day between the official discourse and a portion of the population who rush to the streets terrified by this permit granted to Israel, expressing their despair and dismay, to the point that in the streets of Paris, French flags were mixed with the flags of Palestine, South Africa, and the Kanak flag (flag). separatists in New Caledonia), carried by citizens who refuse to allow their government and president to legitimize nearly 8 months of genocide in their name.