Blatant meddling, sinister union: 'Israel' and the French far-right
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Hannan Hussain
- 18 Jul 2024 00:21
5 Min Read
Unless Paris gauges the temperature and spells out consequences for Zionist meddling, pro-occupation operations are likely to increase on its turf.
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The blatant Israeli campaign of meddling in French politics (Illustrated by Mahdi Rtail; Al Mayadeen English)
The surge of the French far right is just the tip of the iceberg.
The Zionist occupation has pursued a campaign of blatant meddling in French politics, particularly through its courtship of the French far-right to entrench Israeli interests. Occupation "Diaspora" Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli offered blatant support for polarizing French nationalist Marine Le Pen, hoping to portray an ominous union between "Israel" and the far-right as advantageous to "Israel".
“It would be excellent for Israel if [Le Pen] were the president of France, ten exclamation points. In my opinion, it would be good for [the occupation],” Chikli said.
The extent of political meddling ahead of France’s recent parliamentary elections should raise serious alarm. First, Chikli made it clear that he was backing Le Pen’s presidency from the outset, indicating blatant confidence among Zionist lobbyists to push for a pro-occupation candidate without hesitation. It signals a desire to override the aspirations and will of the French citizenry and their right to elect a candidate of choice. This is the definition of a regime change operation in the works.
War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu should also be condemned as one of the chief masterminds of a desired Zionist regime shift in France. After all, he has been vying to back Le Pen’s rise to power and sees it as a welcome future development for "Israel". Though Israeli penetration into French politics has been condemned by Macron as election interference, it reveals vast tolerance to brazen Zionist lobbying, social media manipulation, and influence operations. For instance, preventing occupation ministers from commenting on French elections doesn’t change the reality that "Israel" is willing to erode any resistance to its genocidal actions in the country. Similarly, it only reinforces the fact that France’s opportunist far-right has chosen to push forward its sinister union with Israeli war criminals and will stop at nothing.
Look to the radical shift in the National Rally (NR) party’s ideology toward the Zionist occupation. Le Pen has called her nationalist collective a deep-rooted Zionist party and put that defense into action through deliberate support for pro-occupation protests. All this is a marked departure from the original foundations of the National Rally, which included swift criticism of Israeli belligerence toward Palestinians and its use of Gaza as a “concentration camp where people are deprived the chance to defend themselves.”
Thus, focus criticism where it belongs. Macron is partly responsible for this Zionist far-right embrace. If the French Foreign Ministry was so livid with Chikli’s interference, why is it refraining from overt, legitimate, and long-overdue criticism of Israeli transgressions? For all the French action against Israeli firms and its castigation of "Israel’s" Gaza genocide, the desire to prevent so-called “escalation” in ties is unwarranted and unthinkable.
Unless Paris gauges the temperature and spells out consequences for Zionist meddling, pro-occupation operations are likely to increase on its turf. The Israelis are now projecting Chikli as a so-called "independent" thinker who has his favoritism of the far-right but speaks for himself. The hope is to distance the occupation’s diplomatic dealings from the minister’s actions and pursue interference unabated. Through such deniability, Netanyahu and his pro-occupation allies hope to legitimize Israeli overreach in French far-right quarters, at once working to avoid diplomatic consequences in the wake of another blistering revelation. "He [Chikli] associates with parties we approach with caution and is essentially conducting his own personal foreign policy," an Israeli diplomatic source was recently quoted by Haaretz as saying while brazenly insisting that France was “just one example.”
Le Pen’s unjustified opposition to the Palestinian Resistance is another factor. It has been a trigger for Zionist aggressors to cement France as an apologist state for the occupation. "Israel’s" onslaught has killed over 38,200 Palestinians, prompted the occupation’s growing isolation on the world stage, and left resistance resolve absolutely undiminished. Thus, the far-right’s courtship of Israeli war criminals merits more than just rhetorical condemnation from the current French leadership. Where are tangible steps from Macron to ensure France’s embrace of Palestinian liberties and strike a principled contrast to Le Pen’s war-mongering?
The reality is that France continues to use terrorism as a cover to suppress solidarity with Palestine, most recently through the arrest of pro-Palestinian political scientist Francois Burgat. Burgat’s arrest is not an isolated incident: it reflects a clear push to act on propaganda peddled by Zionist lobbyists to shut down critics of an ongoing genocide. Meanwhile, there is no movement on concrete steps to demonstrate France’s commitment to justice, notably through the long-due recognition of the State of Palestine. Such action would actually demand Macron to stand up to a brutal pro-occupation status quo, a redline for Zionist sympathizers in France.
Thus, sustained inaction from French liberals is a gift to the country’s far-right and pro-"Israel" lobbyists. In effect, this means that the entire political spectrum – across party lines – is guilty of glorifying the occupation and the war criminals that command this genocide.
