Thursday, July 20, 2017

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE'S MACRON SHOWS SIGNS ALREADY OF DISHONEST LEADERSHIP - REPEATING THE PROPAGANDA SLUR EQUATING CRITICISM OF ISRAEL WITH ANTI-SEMITISM - TWO THINGS AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT


Emmanuel Macron says anti-Zionism is a new type of anti-Semitism
French President tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that France will 'not surrender' to anti-Israel rhetoric

Macron is pathetic.

What he is saying is untrue and dishonest, and all honest people understand that.

It reminds me of some American politicians in the past, with campaigns heavily supported by apologists for Israel, going around the United States actually saying, "There's no such thing as a Palestinian."

Macron's is a line taken directly from Israel's playbook provided to all those strongly under its influence.

Indeed, Israel has made major lobbying efforts to have that statement converted into criminal law in many countries of the West.

Fortunately, the intense efforts have not yet resulted in new Orwellian laws in most cases.

But Macron's Newt Gingrich-like statement shouldn't surprise. He has already proved himself a milquetoast, faithful to America's empire, and, of course, Israel is America's outpost in the Middle East, its colony.

So, the one pretty much requires the other.

France has never displayed less dignity and grandeur than in recent decades with leaders the caliber of Sarkozy, Hollande, and now Macron.

Its historic identity as the country Ben Franklin spoke of, "Every man has two countries, his own and France," a country long regarded as an important home for human freedom, is pretty much lost.

De Gaulle would be ashamed of the total inability of recent French presidents to show any independence from the United States. The last time France acted as anything like its old self was when President Jacques Chirac refused to join America’s criminal invasion of Iraq.

This kind of meaningless language from Macron reminds me of his effort to beef-up the Bastille Day parade for Trump's visit to France.

As though that displayed France's strength or independence. Just empty show. Vapidity in fancy costumes. Hollywood.
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Response to another reader who said:
All Jewish people are not Israelis and not all Israelis are Jewish. I can see nothing wrong with peaceful opposition to a nation state, with whose policies you don't agree.

Indeed.

And I believe in the quiet privacy of thought virtually everyone understands this principle.

But the fanatics and shabby special interest-serving politicians and those with no regard for genuine human freedom say otherwise in every forum they can enter.