“It gives the impression that we do not have the right to support the Palestinian people,” says Marine Tondelier.

“It’s unfortunate because it gives the impression that we don’t have the right to support the Palestinian people”reacted Thursday October 12 on franceinfo Marine Tondelier, national secretary of EELV, while the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin ordered the ban on “pro-Palestinian demonstrations because they are likely to generate disturbances to public order”.

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According to Marine Tondelier “We confuse support for the Palestinian people with political support for Hamas”. She specifies that “the support” what “brings very clearly to the Israeli people is obviously not political support for the far-right government of Israel, even if since yesterday they have been a government of national unity. We must be able to separate the two”.

The ban on demonstrations “is regrettable” for Marine Tondelier. During the meeting of party leaders at the Elysée organized Thursday October 12 by Emmanuel Macron, the boss of EELV “called to authorize peace demonstrations”. According to her, the President of the Republic affirmed that “It seemed important to him and that the organizers had to ensure that these events went well”. “I think we can do it”assures the ecologist.

The acts perpetrated by Hamas are “terrorist”

Marine Tondelier reaffirms that the acts perpetrated by Hamas in Israel “must be classified as terrorists”. But she adds that “what is being prepared and what is already taking place in terms of responses and reprisals in Gaza, regardless of whether people are Hamas members or Palestinian civilians, is a problem”. At the Elysée in front of Emmanuel Macron, she wanted to put back “in the debate the fact that all lives have the same value” specifying that “the intention of those who cause the death of civilians may differ”. “The life of an Israeli civilian who is murdered by a Hamas terrorist in a kibbutz, and the life of the Palestinian civilian who is the victim of a bombing in Gaza have the same value.”

Referring to September 11, 2001, Marine Tondelier recalls that “when the United States orchestrated a response to terrorist attacks by going beyond the frameworks imposed by international law and humanitarian law, from Guantanamo to the invasion of Iraq, we had a problem”. She believes that since then, “it is the Middle East and more broadly the whole world which is still suffering the consequences of these illegal reprisals”. “France, which had a strong voice at the time, thus making history, must once again assert its unique voice on the subject”adds the boss of EELV.