“The risk lies in the massive destruction of the civilian population, used by some as human shields and by others as an outlet for the temptation to revenge,” said Jean-Louis Bourlanges. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, a member of Modem, gave a vehement speech against the Netanyahu government and Israel’s settlement policy, which was welcomed by the rebels.
Modem deputy Jean-Louis-Bourlanges, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee and renowned specialist in diplomatic issues, was unwell this Monday in the plenary hall of the National Assembly, where a debate without a vote but heated, organized under Article 50-1 of the Constitution on the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “Excuse me, I’m not feeling very well,” the 77-year-old parliamentarian declared at the end of his long speech, forced to lean on his desk, out of breath. But Jean-Louis Bourlanges’ energy and his oratorical skills were intact. We felt his strong emotion and his desire to finish reading his text, right up to his final remark that Europe must work for peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
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A speech that was, however, very controversial within the National Assembly, where the centrist figure was heavily criticized by the Renaissance deputy for French people abroad, Meyer Habib, and, on the contrary, praised on several occasions by the bench of rebellious parliamentarians. It must be said that when MP Bourlanges vehemently denounced the “war crimes” of Hamas committed in Israel on October 7, he even evoked a “genocidal desire” of the Islamist terrorist group and violated Israel’s “absolute right to Defense”, he At the same time, he strongly condemned the policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and broke with the policies of “the great historical leaders of Israel, who were aware of the extreme vulnerability” of the Hebrew state, revealed by the Yom Kippur War was in 1973. “These men had felt that Israel would find peace only on the condition that it establishes with the Arab states, but also with the men and women of Palestine, a balanced relationship of mutual respect and sharing of benefits of peace,” he continued parliamentarian.
“Hamas’ barbaric violence was without excuse, but not without reason.”
Jean-Louis Bourlanges quotes the Archbishop of Algiers
Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Archbishop of Algiers, said: “Hamas’s barbaric violence was without excuse, but not without reason.” “Successive Netanyahu governments have acted as if the Palestinian problem was a thing of the past and there was no longer any reason “To take into account the expectations and fear of the initiatives of a divided, disqualified and – in its most extreme forms – divided Palestinian community of Hamas – quite simply bought by its enemy,” complained MP Modem. The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee particularly criticized Israel’s colonization policy in the West Bank, always to the applause of the LFI MPs: “The Abraham Accords [rapprochement entre Israël, les Émirats arabes unis et le Bahreïn en 2020, NDLR] Having allowed the Arab states to abandon the Palestinians to their sad fate, the Israeli government felt free to initiate a gradual but brutal and determined revival of its settlement policy in the West Bank.
But Jean-Louis Bourlanges does not see Israel as the sole culprit. “It would be unfair to attribute to the Jewish state the monopoly on the new brutalization of the world from which the horror of October 7th emerged. Everywhere the forces of moderation, cooperation and peace have been defeated. That the Palestinians have had the growing and suicidal temptation to seek refuge in a kind of political nihilism cannot, unfortunately, surprise us. “Could a population without a future and therefore without hope be tempted by moderate parties that had nothing to offer them?” asked the deputy from the assembly podium.
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Finally, when Jean-Louis Bourlanges discussed the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the IDF’s expected land offensive in Gaza, he expressed caution. “It is essential to ensure that a legitimate counterattack, when aimed exclusively at destroying the attacker’s military assets, avoids two major pitfalls,” explained the MP, who was the first to “the risk of “uncontrolled escalation leading to a general “could lead to a wildfire” mentioned. citing Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Russia and China. “The second risk is the massive destruction of the civilian population, used by some as human shields, by others as an outlet for the temptation to revenge, to use the worrying expression of the Israeli prime minister,” he said.
Jean-Louis concluded by mentioning the “two-state solution”, a historic diplomatic position by France, among others. “The task is daunting because the wall of hate separates Israelis and Palestinians. Today it is both too late and too early to create two states in the land of Palestine. However, it is high time to start creating the conditions that will make this double creation possible in due course,” said the MP. The first condition for the center is that Israel “end its colonization policy and finally recognize that the solution to the Palestinian problem cannot be achieved by exporting Palestinians from the West to Egypt and Palestinians from the East to Jordan.” The second option would be to “restore, with the support of the moderate Abraham Pact states, an active Palestinian authority that is respected and capable of taking over the reduced Hamas in Gaza and negotiating a status that would “The rights of Palestinians are respected.”