Jean-Luc Mélenchon judged on Saturday that the resumption of Israeli bombings in Gaza presented “all the indications of a genocidal desire” and estimated that Emmanuel Macron “no longer weighed” despite his renewed calls for “a lasting ceasefire “. “We are extremely alarmed by the fact that the resumption of bombings signifies a stage of worsening of the war and presents all the indications of a genocidal desire,” declared the rebellious leader, just before the start, in Paris, of a “March for peace and justice” in support of the Palestinians.
“Mr. Netanyahu had asked the population of Gaza to move from the north to the south, and now that the population is in the south, that is where the bombings are taking place,” denounced Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The three-time presidential candidate, present at the demonstration with many rebellious deputies, also underlined that “as many people died in 42 days of bombings in Gaza as perished during the four years of the siege of Sarajevo ” from 1992 to 1996. The Hamas government reported a death toll of more than 15,000, when the siege of the Bosnian capital caused around 12,000 civilian deaths.
“It is global public opinion that is the main defense of the poor Palestinians in Gaza”
While President Emmanuel Macron called on Saturday in Dubai to “redouble efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was doubtful. “So much the better if he calls for a lasting ceasefire,” he said, but “his point of view does not matter much, there and here.” “Perhaps he is doing what he can but unfortunately I believe that it no longer carries any weight. What weighs is us, public opinion,” he insisted. “It is global public opinion that is the main defense of the poor Palestinians in Gaza,” he said.
The head of environmentalists Marine Tondelier, also present at the demonstration with several EELV elected officials, assured that Emmanuel Macron had succeeded, “between October 12” and “November 30”, the date of two of their meetings, “to to confuse with all the countries in the area” in the Middle East, and in France to disappoint “the CRIF, the defenders of Palestine and the defenders of peace”. She demanded, in a column co-signed with the rebellious MP François Ruffin and the former president of Médecins sans frontières, Rony Brauman, “the entry of the International Criminal Court into Gaza”.