De Gaulle would cry Netanyahu and Trump's soullessness – the striker

Robert Zaretsky
May 25, 2025

A new front opened in the Gaza Strip last week. However, it is not along the banks of Jordan with Israelis and the Hamas against each other, but along the banks of the Seine with French and Israeli governments, the Salvos deal with allegations.

This battle of diplomatic, slight and quiet blows is of course an additional number for the unspeakable tragedy that unfolds in Gaza. Nevertheless, it is important because it makes light on what is political and morally at stake, since the intensive war is not only between Israel and Hamas, but also between Israel and its traditional allies.

Lately, the ties between Israel and France have been particularly resolved. But that MéfianceOr distrust between the two countries was not always the case. Finally, France was one of the first nations that officially recognize the state of Israel and fought alongside Israel and Great Britain in the disapproved invasion of the Suez Canal and not only delivered Israel with vital military equipment – especially with the Mirage fighter – and core technology.

All of this went south when the fourth republic of France collapsed during the Algerian crisis and was replaced by the fifth (and current) republic, the work of his first president, Charles de Gaulle. Initially, de Gaulle David Ben-Gurion praised “one of the largest leaders in the West” and announced the justification of a Jewish state as “a certain compensation for suffering in the course of the long age”.

By 1967, however, De Gaulle had already started diplomatic and strategic speed for the Arab countries. De Gaulle was dead to revive French size on the world stage, and in a rapidly developing geopolitical landscape, seized the vital place of the Arab world-one world in which France had left an indelible footprint as a colonial power. In the run -up to the war, de Gaulle imposed the region a weapon embargo that was only affected by Israel. When Israel ignored his warning to Foreign Minister Abba Eban that Israel was not allowed to fire the first shot, the general broke out in anger: “You didn't listen to me!”

Relationships only deteriorated when De Gaulle presented the Jews as “elite people, confident and wonderful” at a press conference later this year. This description, which de Gaulle did not unconscious about it, was meant as a compliment, not only shocked Israelis, but also French Judaism, including the great French intellectual (and former Baullisten) Raymond Aron. In the subsequent excitement, a cautious remark that De Gaulle had made was unanswered: “Israel has set up in the areas in which he captured a crew, which inevitably contains oppression, oppression and trigger and resistance to this crew, which in turn is measured as terrorism.”

Nevertheless, relationships improved after the turn of the 21st century among the presidium of conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist François Hollande. Both diplomatically closer to Israel, a shift that was driven by the rash of Islamist terrorist attacks in France and Israel.

With the victory of Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election, the Franco Israeli ties in 2017 seemed as if they were going strong. During his campaign, Macron visited the Holocaust monument in Paris, intoned “never again” and thus confirmed the official vow of France, which was passed by President Jacques Chirac in 1995, to take on the nation's responsibility for his role in the final solution. In addition, this year he led the ceremony of the notorious Vel D'HIV roundup and confirmed his belief that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are the same.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who took part in this ceremony, praised Macron's explanation. Afterwards, instead of standing side by side, the two guides tried to stand on the necks of the other. Since the re -election in 2021 in the repetition of his game against the right -wing extremist Marine Le Pen, Macron has become more and more impatient with the right -wing shifting of Netanyahu. While Netanyahu from opportunistic (albeit effectively nihilistic) reasons pursued an Entente cordiale with the leaders of the radical and expansionist settler movement, Macron was pronounced in the occupied areas about Israel's oppression policy.

Macron immediately condemned the murderous Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and referred to his nation's commitment to the politics of “never again”. But when a fair war against Hamas became an unjust war against Palestinian civilians, Macron began to condemnate with the increasing openness of Israel's actions. In a television interview that he had given two weeks ago, Macron's criticism jumped an octave.

He denounced Israel's abbreviated humanitarian aid in Gaza and explained that the government of Netanyahu was “unacceptable”.

“There is no water, no medicine, the wounded cannot get out, the doctors cannot get in. What he does is shameful,” he said. At the same time, he confessed to his impotence to influence Israel: “I had tough words with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I got angry, but they have angry them [Israel] Depending on us, they are dependent on American weapons. “

Shortly afterwards, Macron led a joint explanation with the Canadian and British prime ministers Mark Carney and Keir Starrer, with the conclusion of humanitarian aid and food to Israel sentenced to the Gaza Strip population and effectively condemned it to hunger. In the name of their countries, the three leaders of Israel convicted of “disproportionate escalation” military actions in Gaza, the “degree of unbearable suffering” that was imposed on the civilian population by Israel, and their “forced expulsion” of an entire population.

Finally, government officials in Israel also wrestled for the “hideous language”, which used the men, women and children who bombed and starved them.

Netanyahu's reaction was even more hideous. After the terrible murder of two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington last week, Netanyahu blamed at the feet of these leaders: “I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer when mass murderers, rapists and kidnappers thank you on the wrong side of the judiciary.”

It was no coincidence that Macron's name cited the list of misfires – a fact that became clear when the minister of Diaspora, Amichai Chikli, claimed that “Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starrer and Mark Carney” propagated the blood screens against Jews and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who propagated the trio of “Inciting WOT” against Jews in the whole world in the whole world incusion.

Macron's commitment to fainting and recognition that the United States alone can force Netanyahu to join, and since then “the wrong side of history” has occurred. Last week, Donald Trump Netanyahu seems to have pushed to easily relieve the blocking of food and medicine. Of course, there are only the slightest reasons to welcome this shift. The shift in the extremely inhuman and illegal policy of Israel is not only completely inadequate to satisfy the desperate needs of two million civilians, but it was also the work of an individual who is no less soulless and shameless than the Israeli guide.

Both men illustrate the observation of Charles de Gaulle: “Patriotism is the top priority when the love of their own people comes first, and nationalism is the top priority for other people.” If he were alive today, the great man would look at this spectacle with shame.