On October 7, Hamas carried out a large-scale attack against Israeli civilians, killing at least 1,400 people, according to the latest reports from the Jewish state. Faced with the massacre, the IDF, the Israeli army, began a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Israel also imposed a total blockade of the enclave, plunging the two million inhabitants into extreme precariousness. Faced with this, dozens of demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause have been organized all over the world.
In Paris, several of them have been banned. Despite this, thousands of people come together each time. Invited this Tuesday on the set of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, Renaissance MP Karl Olive is concerned about the additional divide brought by the conflict between Israel and Hamas in France.
Not qualifying Hamas as terrorist, “an unforgivable mistake”
A division which is added to many others, and which he accuses La France insoumise of exploiting: “La France insoumise has a big responsibility in relation to this. When La France insoumise, which says the police kill, it will revive hatred in the neighborhoods. When France insoumise tells us that business leaders are bastards, it is unacceptable. They are creators of wealth, they are providers of jobs. When France insoumise which is incapable of qualifying the Hamas as a terrorist, it’s an unforgivable mistake,” he says angrily at Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone.
The former 2022 presidential candidate, like many deputies from France Insoumise, did not wish to characterize the October 7 attack as a terrorist act. “Violence only produces and reproduces itself,” he explained on X (formerly Twitter), while a press release from the LFI parliamentary group explained that “the armed offensive by Palestinian forces led by Hamas intervenes in a context of intensification of the Israeli occupation policy in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
“Ten lies do not make one truth.”
Comments which caused an outcry in the French political world. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a danger for society. He should be on S file,” judges Karl Olive, believing that leader of La France insoumise “was much more dangerous than a certain number of S files in our society. Yes, it’s a danger, because it fuels hatred. And today, our neighborhoods are like pressure cookers.”
“Ten lies do not result in one truth and yet, this is what really creates a divide in this society,” he points out. “But indeed, he is not the only one responsible,” he adds, now calling on the political class to take responsibility to avoid new fractures in society.