West Bank: the chairman of the Assembly's foreign affairs committee adopts the expression "ethnic cleansing" used by the former French ambassador to Israel
A former French ambassador had described the behavior of Israelis in the West Bank as “ethnic cleansing”. This observation “seems quite fair” to MP Jean-Louis Bourlanges, invited on Saturday November 18 on France Inter.
Jean-Louis Bourlanges, MoDem (Center right, christian, democrat, moderate) deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and president of the foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly, took up the expression "ethnic cleansing" on Saturday November 18 in "Le grand interview" on France Inter. used by Gérard Araud, former French ambassador to Israel, during his hearing Wednesday before the Foreign Affairs Committee to qualify Israel's policy. The diplomat had said that "retail ethnic cleansing" was underway in the West Bank. “That seems pretty fair to me,” said Jean-Louis Bourlanges.
"It is a policy which, in effect, aims to drive Palestinian farmers and peasants from their land, with complicity that is often very badly felt by the IDF soldiers and a kind of semi-public organization of settlers who is something very, very unhealthy,” said the MoDem deputy. The elected official denounced “the settlement of the Palestinian question through a vacuum”. According to him, if the Jewish State's approach consists of "saying that the Gazans are disappearing towards Egypt and the West Bank, that the West Bankers are disappearing with King Abdullah in Jordan", it is "first of all unrealistic and it "is morally unacceptable," he said.
Since the Hamas attack on October 7, Jean-Louis Bourlanges has not understood Israel's objective: "War is not violence. War is not the law of retaliation. "war is not revenge. War is the use of force and violence to achieve specific political objectives," he explained. He fears that the Jewish state wants to “make the territory of Gaza uninhabitable because the fundamental idea is that Gazans must disappear from the territory of Gaza,” he continued. “It’s very serious,” he said.
==> This politician and his party are not crazies, what they are saying is taken very seriously.
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