The French prime minister has departed from worldwide legitimacy for Palestine – Center East Monitor

So far as the battle in occupied Palestine is worried, France stresses that the answer lies with two states dwelling in peace and safety on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem because the frequent capital. The French name for the creation of a constructive basis for the launch of negotiations on the premise of the precise and practical commitments of the 2 events.

Led by President Emmanuel Macron, France additionally helps President Mahmoud Abbas and his initiative for a world convention to realize peace underneath the auspices of the worldwide Quartet and different events. The Egyptian, Jordanian, French and German overseas ministers burdened in the course of the fifth ministerial assembly in Munich final month the necessity to relaunch critical and efficient negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis to realize a simply and complete peace primarily based on the two-state resolution.

Additionally they reiterated their dedication to help efforts to realize such a peace that meets the official rights of all events and on the premise of the two-state resolution, in accordance with worldwide regulation, related UN resolutions and agreed upon references, together with the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

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Regardless of all of this, French Prime Minister Jean Castex expressed a contradictory place whereas attending the annual dinner of the Consultant Council of French Jewish Establishments (CRIF). “Jerusalem is the everlasting capital of the Jewish folks,” claimed Castex. “That doesn’t cease anybody from recognising and respecting the attachment of different religions to this metropolis.” The French official additionally claimed that anti-Semitism is normally the work of “extremist Islamists”, and added that he needed to incorporate the struggle in opposition to anti-Semitism in all French greater schooling establishments “with out respite”.

Castex’s assertion contradicts the positions of his predecessor Macron, who burdened the “urgency of restoring peace” within the Center East primarily based on UN resolutions. Castex additionally contradicts the place of the EU whose leaders affirmed that its place on the standing of Jerusalem stays agency, regardless of former US President Donald Trump’s resolution to recognise the holy metropolis because the capital of Israel.

The unusual factor concerning the timing of the French prime minister’s assertion relating to Jerusalem is that it comes when the voices of Europe and lots of nations world wide are condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the US and European nations take into account to be a flagrant violation of worldwide regulation, and an infringement of the sovereignty of the state. The identical really applies to Palestine, after all, which has been subjected to invasion, occupation and colonisation by the Israeli state, and Israel continues to commit crimes in opposition to the Palestinian folks, seize their land, impose apartheid and expel them from their houses.

It will have been higher for him, and for Europe’s credibility, for the French official to sentence the actions and insurance policies of Israel, as documented by Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch, which all accuse the colonial state of the crime of apartheid. His biased place on Israel contradicts worldwide legal guidelines and conventions. My query to Jean Castex is easy: does he don’t have any regard for the official rights of all folks — together with the Palestinians — as stipulated by worldwide legal guidelines and conventions?

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The US and Western sanctions in opposition to Russia for invading Ukraine won’t ever be repeated in opposition to Israel, regardless of its struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity. The West needs to be ashamed of itself for its duplicity. You can not declare the ethical excessive floor about freedom and democracy, whereas supporting Israel’s colonisation of Palestine and ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians.

Russia’s struggle on Ukraine has revealed the true face of the West and its hypocrisy. The French prime minister’s statements encapsulate this. The French authorities should absolutely present a proof of Castex’s help for Israel, after which a sturdy retraction in step with its confirmed positions and worldwide resolutions, all of which regard East Jerusalem as a part of the territories occupied by Israel since 1967. Something much less will display France’s blatant contempt for worldwide regulation.

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