2024-10-28 04:00:00
An the name of the Gaullist vision of international relations that she supports, Marine Le Pen supports it “France must never present itself as unconditional support to anyone”. “Never.” But if the leader of the French far right does not deviate from her neutrality in the war that has been opposing Russia and Ukraine for more than two years, she renounces all independence in the rekindled conflicts in the Middle East. Whether targeting the Gaza Strip against Hamas or targeting Lebanon against Hezbollah, Israel benefits from the National Rally’s (RN) unconditional support.
The party chaired by Jordan Bardella has never expressed its firm support for the policies of the Jewish State in the last twelve months. Not anymore when bombings reduced Gaza to ashes, killing more than 40,000 people, according to the enclave’s health ministry, as well as when gunfire wounded five peacekeepers in southern Lebanon between October 10 and 12. The position of the RN leaders after the damage suffered by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) contrasts with the unanimous disapproval of other French political leaders, as well as several foreign partners or models of the former National Front. “This is not acceptable and violates the provisions” from the UN resolutions, reacted the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
Ten days after UNIFIL accused Israeli troops of shooting “repeatedly” et “deliberate” Regarding his positions, Giordano Bardella expressed timid disapproval. “No country and no democracy can tolerate this type of deliberate aggression”the president of the RN was the first to complain on Monday 21 October in front of the European Parliament. Then he quickly put the facts into the framework of“a legitimate struggle aimed at neutralizing Islamic totalitarianism in the Middle East”and postponed the end of the conflict to a hypothetical dismantling of Hezbollah, proposed by the RN as a preliminary to the cessation of fighting.
Marine Le Pen, “shield” of the Jews
More visible than ever, unconditional support for Israel is at the heart of the “de-demonization” enterprise led by Marine Le Pen for more than a decade. Anxious to free the RN from its anti-Semitism, considered “the last barrier” preventing its rise to power, the elected representative has made support for the Jewish state a decisive lever in her operation to seduce the French Jewish community.
Thirty years after his father’s outbursts, which he described the gas chambers as “point of detail” of the history of the Second World War, Marine Le Pen introduces herself ” shield “ Jews of France, and even at the head of a party “Zionist”. “From Jean-Marie Le Pen to Marine Le Pen, the closeness shown with Israel has never changed its objective: to normalize abroad [des frontières] to better normalize ourselves inside”summarizes Nicolas Lebourg, researcher at the Center for Political and Social Studies of the University of Montpellier and specialist of the far right.
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