Yesterday, Gilles Paris, associate editor of International Service world responded to this serious issue (no one raises yet): "Who are the French pro-Palestinian? .
pose the question, is to introduce the idea of an oxymoron, as if "French" and "pro-Palestinian" were two contradictory terms. The picture accompanying the article also shows a young woman with very dull complexion and black hair, his face hidden by her sign, which we see only very eyes makeup. Eastern kind. And summary of the article, as happened in the RSS, said:
"The pro-Palestinian movement in France is based mainly on the left, extreme left and the environmentalists, as well as a network dense associations and organizations. "This summary is detailed in the article and ends with the mention of an association "Prohibited in the United States'
" The political component of the pro-Palestinian movement is accompanied by a dense network of associations and organizations, whether human rights movements of the man (League of Human Rights), associations of local authorities (Association of French cities twinned with Palestinian refugee camps) and NGOs such as the Committee of charitable and relief to Palestinians (CBSP), which are the majority of members present in the French fleet in Gaza. The CBSP, which has its headquarters in France, was banned in the United States for his alleged links with Hamas. "
" Shifting "is obviously not a neutral term, since it means an ultra-minority splinter group suspected of hazardous activities on the basis of political extremists. I've never heard of, for example, "pro-Israel movement". Yet those are the "pro-Israeli" who are ultra-minority (what we will see later), engaged in dangerous activities and are motivated by political extremists.
" On this issue, the position of the extreme left (Workers' Struggle and the New Anti-Capitalist Party) is quite similar, with the denunciation of the diplomatic line between Israel and the United States. "As for the Greens, it's even worse:
"This is largely due to their historical roots to the left, at least for part of them, the Greens are also in favor of the Palestinian national movement."To recover only happened very recently, the destruction of Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and their share of crimes, constant violations of international resolutions, Israeli racism (right-wing government, polls showing the rise of racist views ...), the bombing in Syria in 2007, War Crimes in Gaza in 2009, the assassination in Dubai with European passports in 2010 and the recent murder of activists of the fleet of international humanitarian while it has no reason to be grounds. No, what motivates the "movement" is the denunciation of the Israeli-American axis for ideological reasons (archaic), and for the Greens, it's tied to their tail-positioning "left."
More generally, it refers to the many articles that questioned the degradation of the "image" Israel. When it does not directly concern the West, the articles are concerned about the "anger" in the Arab world (way of defusing the issue: Israel assassinates in Dubai with European passports, but the only consequence would be a decrease in image in the Arab world, as if the Western citizens had no reason to be angry).
These numerous articles on the "image" of Israel are themselves, in reality, communication operations. They suggest that it is only after some specific episodes, and only within a very restricted "pro-Palestinian movement," or the "Arab street", there would be a "bad image" of Israel.
This allows then to pursue our policy of economic partnership, political and military ties with Israel, and never do anything to force Israel to respect international law minimum.
At that point, every time we talk with friends of the "movement" (heh heh), there is always someone to ask "how could we tell people," "understanding the situation" .. . That is to say that even within the "movement" people tend to believe / feel minority. This, in my opinion, produced the loss of time, inefficiency and a large "timidity".
yet and it seems important to me, the only legitimate questions are now:
- Who are (still, despite all the Israeli crimes) the French pro-Israel?
- What is the movement pro-Israel? What are his motives?
- Why do so many European politicians support Israel and they proclaim their "friendship" for that state, while the people who elect them are also mostly critical of Israel? Because
All these statistics show that Western governments adopt on Israel, opposing views to their publics. She also explains that the "war of communication" by Israel, which may seem bewildering to a nullity, is not really Western public opinion, but above all the Israeli public. Because Western public opinion, despite the belief many pro-Palestinian, are widely know, and especially skeptical about the great "democracy" and the morality of Israeli army.
could always take them back, but I'll just a few examples which point out that the "pro-Palestinian movement" means in reality the majority of Western citizens, and that it is the "pro-Israel movement" that is a specific minority and isolated, but active, effective and valued-on media and politics.
An investigation two days after the attack against humanitarian fleet indicates that 40% of Norwegians are in favor of a boycott of Israeli products . It is not a "negative opinion" is a willingness to act: gold, mobilize public opinion to bring them to "act", even at the very least, is something very difficult to obtain.
Gilles Paris, which speculates on the identity of the "pro-Palestinian movement, had however reported few weeks earlier (before the Israeli attack), a survey by the BBC :
" A BBC poll released April 19 shows the negative image of Israel in the world. In a sample of 28 countries, the Jewish state is stored in the group of countries unpopular with North Korea, Pakistan and Iran, the lowest score. "In France, only 20% of respondents have a image "mostly positive" of Israel, and 57% image "mostly negative" influence of Israel. In Germany, it goes up to 13% positive and 68% negative. In Britain, 17% positive, 50% negative. Really, we should ask ourselves the question: "Who is this movement pro-Israeli ultra-minority struggling to reach 20% in European countries?" When many of our politicians proclaim their "friendship" for Israel, they speak for whom?
Even the United States, the only country where Israel's image is more positive than negative (and where political discourse is oriented one way in amazing ways), the figures are not so good: Although 40 % of positive image, but still 31% negative. In Canada, only 23% positive and 38% negative.
One of the most dramatic poll was published at the initiative of the European Commission (not to my knowledge, member of the "pro-Palestinian movement) in October 2003. That is to say long before the wars of 2006 and the massacres that have occurred since.
To the question: "For each country, please tell me whether you believe or not it represents a threat to world peace?" Is Israel who received the worst score: 59% Europeans surveyed (55% of French people) believe that Israel represents a threat to world peace. No other country offered such a poor score obtained (even Iran, even North Korea, even the United States of Bush).
Specifically, Israel is there a threat to world peace?
- 18% Yes, absolutely
- 41% Yes, somewhat
- 24% No, not really
- 13% Not at all.
Note:
- Even among those who at the time, are justified intervention in Iraq, 57% believe that Israel is a threat, little difference with those who find the intervention is not justified.
- higher the education level increases, the more Israel is viewed as a threat (from 50% to 66%).
Moreover, contrary to the presentation of Gilles Paris (a political movement motivated against the American-Israeli axis) gives almost the same negative opinion against Israel among those who support the intervention in Iraq and those opposed. If the "French pro-Palestinian" were well described that this movement (axis leftist anti-American), it would be a strong match between distrust of Israel and condemning American intervention in Iraq; match found only marginally in the figures.
I know, Gilles Paris, if these 59% of Europeans consider Israel a threat to world peace (no country gets such a bad score) are what you call "the movement pro-Palestinian"? Could you investigate the reasons for the minority of only 37% of Europeans believe Israel is not a threat against peace, only 20% of those who have an opinion "fairly positive"? Are they a movement, they have a political agenda shameful, how they intersect and Islamophobic racist views in Europe?
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