The former Minister of the Interior also regretted that all the political parties were not “associated” with this 24-hour visit to Israel.
“It would have been preferable if the voice of France had been expressed only through the voice of the President of the Republic”said former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, regarding the visit of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet to Israel.
Emmanuel Macron will travel to Tel Aviv on Tuesday October 24 to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The holder of the perch indicated that France “fully supports Israel.”believing that “nothing should prevent” the country “to defend oneself” in the war between him and Palestinian Hamas.
“I understand very well that the President of the National Assembly is traveling with a delegation. But when we are in a context as difficult as the one we know, as troubled, with such serious international tensions, the voice of France is expressed through the President of the Republic“, decided the former Minister of the Interior.
A lack of unity within the political class
He also regretted that all political groups were not “associated” to this 24-hour visit to Israel. Yaël Braun-Pivet was accompanied by LR president and deputy Eric Ciotti, LR deputy for French people abroad Meyer Habib, and Renaissance deputy Mathieu Lefèvre, president of the friendship group France-Israel.
They notably visited Kibbutz Beeri and the site of the rave party where hundreds of people were killed and kidnapped during attacks carried out by Hamas Islamists.
“I hear the President of the Republic speaking about the concern for de-escalation (…), he was right to take this position“, underlined Bernard Cazeneuve.
“The limit of State intervention is respect for international law”
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If the Hebrew State “was the subject of a monstrous terrorist attack“and responded with a massive bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip which killed more than 4,600 Palestinians, the former socialist recalled that “the limit of a State’s intervention is respect for international law“.
Accept the idea that there can be “two coexisting States”
He invoked François Mitterrand’s speech before the Knesset in 1982 which called for “cohabitation between two States in peace“.
According to him, “this line should have inspired the diplomacy of all States for peace“but was”abandoned, including through the Abraham Accords“negotiated by the United States, which allowed Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Morocco, to establish official ties with Israel.”We cannot build peace if we continue colonization in the West Bank, we cannot build peace if we do not accept the idea that there can be two states coexisting and cohabiting in peace, one side of the other“, he defended.