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.
