“We are totally in solidarity with the Israeli people,” says Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Modem deputy and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly.

Does France support the war? “We are indeed in complete solidarity with the Israeli people. (…) I believe that most, if not all, of my colleagues are absolutely horrified by the terrorist acts that have been carried out by Hamas“, says Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Modem deputy and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly. In detail, the latter condemns “attacks on civilians, hostage-taking, humiliation, incarceration and deportation of children“.

“I believe that no political cause, even that of the Palestinian people, can justify the use of terrorism, and the use of this absolute surge of brutality“, adds the MP.

Find “an operational and reasonable solution”

For Jean-Louis Bourlanges “the two-state solution was the only one“.”It has clearly been abandoned, and it has not been replaced“, he laments. What about the form of the Israeli response? “To be honest, I don’t see what his options really are. [à Benjamin Netanyahou, ndlr]. The first concern is to protect Israel, to reestablish its sovereignty, to reestablish its territory. (…) Secondly, it is about recovering these young people, these people, these women, these children who have been taken hostage, and I believe that it is very difficult. Beyond that, what can he do?“, asks the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly.

“Does the fact of enclosing the Gaza zone, and prohibiting its water supply, (…) lead to the disappearance of the slightly more than 2 million people who are in Gaza? I don’t think this type of solution is satisfactory or possible. It is simply a matter of finding a solution that is operational and reasonable“, he continues, before reaffirming that France is “totally united“of Israel in its”right to security“and his right to”live in peace“.