2023-10-09 09:24:02
This is a secondary question in view of the geopolitical earthquake represented by the Hamas attack against Israel, but the French left has found reasons to split. The New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes) even came close to its end, Sunday October 8. The violence of the images of hostage-taking and executions of Israeli civilians by Hamas could have brought the left into agreement. The French Communist Party (PCF), defender, in the spring, of a resolution aimed at ratifying the term of « régime d’apartheid » for Israel, described Saturday, in a statement, these attacks as“unacceptable and unjustifiable”. The Greens condemned “terrorist acts”the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, made known his “total condemnation of the attack launched this morning by Hamas”adding that “terrorism is not justice”.
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What remained was La France Insoumise (LFI). The Somme deputy François Ruffin and his colleague from Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière, who relayed his message, made a voice close to their coalition allies heard, by formulating a “total condemnation of the Hamas attack”followed by fears about the response “the most brutal Israeli government in thirty years”.
But in the press release from the LFI group to the Assembly, published on Saturday noon, there is no question of condemnation or terrorism. The LFI group office chose to talk about “the armed offensive of Palestinian forces led by Hamas”to explain it in the same sentence by “a context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem”. “We deplore the Israeli and Palestinian deaths. Our thoughts go out to all the victims”continue the deputies, before calling for a ceasefire.
“A new ambiguous sentence”
On Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also avoided any terrorist qualification, and kept things vague, omitting Hamas: “All the violence unleashed against Israel and in Gaza proves only one thing: violence only produces and reproduces itself. » An argument which earned the “rebels” criticism from the Prime Minister herself. “It is very shocking, in the current context we cannot put Hamas, an organization recognized as terrorist by the EU, back to back with a democratic state which is the victim of a terrorist attack”said Elisabeth Borne, whose father was a survivor of the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, on BFM-TV, denouncing “a way of masking anti-Semitism”.
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