After the Hamas attack on Israel, François Ruffin expresses his “support for the victims and Israeli society”. But he believes that “support for the Israeli government must not be blind”. The “rebellious” deputy from the Somme also regrets ” alignment “ of France on the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What is your analysis of the situation in Israel?
Before the coldness of the analysis, I want to express my feelings with warmth: the horror of women, children shot at point blank range, young people dancing murdered, massacres discovered every day, by entire families. So many atrocities, so much cruelty, that we wouldn’t even dare imagine. And now, the violence that is breaking out in Gaza, these 2.5 million people, who are being advised to leave, as if they had a safe haven. I unreservedly condemn the actions of Hamas. It is a fanatical, terrorist organization, which has always been the adversary of progressives in the Middle East, hostile to any peace compromise, which wants the end of the State of Israel.
It must also be said that it is the breeding ground of Hamas. Having made Gaza an open-air prison, without hope for the youth, has fueled the worst. We do indeed have a face-to-face confrontation between “Hamas fanaticism” and “an imbecile Israeli policy” [selon les mots de l’historien israélien Elie Barnavi] coming from the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Without a third party intervening, an infernal machine is launched. However, for ten years, the international community has been absent. With the agreements of Abraham [en 2020], the West wanted to step over the Palestinian question. It’s a fail.
Support for the victims and Israeli society is obvious, I support it. But support for the Israeli government must not be blind. We must constantly set a ceasefire and peace as our objective. Monday, in the press release from the five countries, including France, there is no word peace: it is a big problem.
Why this absence of slogan?
Because there is an alignment with the United States. Emmanuel Macron’s activism on Twitter [renommé X] does not compensate for his desertion from the case for years. The Gaullo-Mitterrandian tradition wanted us to express ourselves independently, without aligning ourselves, to affirm that there is no military solution to the conflict, to call for respect for international law, that we rely on the UN, and that we support the creation of a Palestinian state in accordance with UN resolutions. This was France’s position until the early 2000s, until Jacques Chirac. Since then, there has been silence, absence, alignment.
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