Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dominique de Villepin, was the guest of France Inter on Thursday October 12.
“The two-state solution, which we buried”East “more than ever, today, the only one” to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin, Thursday October 12 on France Inter.
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So, “hear” Catherine Colonna, current boss of the Quai d’Orsay, defending the creation of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel made her “happy”. It is “the only solution, in our opinion [La France]which will ensure that the two peoples live in peace and security in the long term.”in fact declared the minister on Wednesday on Franceinfo. “Let us ensure that a Palestinian Authority emerges that is representative and capable of conducting negotiationsargues Dominique de Villepin. From this point of view, Israel has a responsibility, because it has done everything to divide.”
The two-state solution is “in terms of security, the best guarantee that Israel could have”because “Having a state formed next to you is better than having a proliferation of terrorist organizations, a cauldron of death that threatens you at every moment”. “This is what the Israelis were reminded of”with the Hamas offensive against the Hebrew state.
“A requirement for responsibility” for France
For Dominique de Villepin, France has an important role to play in easing tensions in the Middle East. “There is also a demand for responsibility that we must bring to the head of the international community”because according to him, “we are perhaps one of the countries which has the greatest experience of these situations of war, crisis, terrorism”. “So we have an experience to share and we must be imaginative, we must find solutions in humanitarian terms”, he adds. The former face of French diplomacy is also critical of Israel’s response to the Hamas offensive.
“The right to self-defense is not a right to indiscriminate vengeance,”
Dominique de Villepin,at franceinfo
“Fighting Hamas does not mean locking up the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip without being able to leave”, believes Dominique de Villepin. For this reason, “we need to think about ‘humanitarian corridors’ so that all this does not end in a bloodbath”.