Macron does not seeem to be able to make up his mind. Previously, he called on Israeli leaders to "stop killing Gazan women and babies". He was also reported to have told Israeli's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who described his war on on Gaza and Lebanon as a "war of civilization," Macron told him that "defending civilization is not done by sowing barbarism."
Macron, who still refuses to acknowledge the crimes France committed in Africa, including the massacring of 1.5 million Algerians, sees all resistance as Barbaric. But that is the only position that could justify war crimes at the hands of colonial occupiers.
Outside the Parliament, Moroccans took to the street to protest his statements. Morocco is a good example for where the rulers are governing with no popular support. Moroccans protesting outside claimed that "those who applaud in parliament do not represent the Moroccan people, neither closely nor remotely."
Other Moroccans explained that the Parliamentarians applauded the ceasefire proposal, not Macron's statement about resistance.
Opposition party leader issues a letter responding to Macron
Secretary-General of the Moroccan Justice and Development Party (opposition) Abdelilah Benkirane criticized the position expressed by French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, Tuesday, regarding Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, during his speech before the Moroccan parliament on the occasion of the state visit he has been making to Morocco for days.
Benkirane said in a letter in French addressed to Macron today, Wednesday, "We express our deep astonishment at the content of your speech regarding the war of extermination waged by Israel in Gaza."
Benkirane added in his message that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “is like the Moroccan National Liberation Movement (a group of organizations and parties that confronted the French colonialism of Morocco), the Free French Forces (the forces that General Charles de Gaulle gathered in 1940 to confront the German invasion of France during World War II), the National Liberation Front in Algeria (which confronted the French colonialism of Algeria), and many liberation movements in the world.”
He stressed that “Hamas was and will remain a resistance movement that exercises its legitimate right to defend its people against occupation and genocide, a right guaranteed by international law,” and that “it and all Palestinian resistance factions are rightfully resisting against colonialism, occupation, ethnic cleansing, the Great Settlement, and genocide, and against all these barbaric operations committed by Israel, which do not date back to October 7, 2023, but rather began a long time ago and have continued without interruption for more than 76 years.”
Benkirane's letter considered that "what Israel is doing as a settler entity, occupying the land of Palestine illegally, has nothing to do with the right to self-defense," and that "the crimes it has committed for decades, the escalating genocide it has been practicing in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and the generals' plan it has been implementing in northern Gaza for weeks, are unparalleled in the history of atrocities and brutalities." The letter continued that "describing these crimes as a right to self-defense constitutes a great injustice and a heinous insult to the Palestinian people who have been oppressed since at least 1948, and to the hundreds of thousands of civilian women and children who have been exterminated or mutilated by the Israeli army since October 7, 2023, and is an encouragement and license to kill for the barbaric occupation army to continue this ethnic cleansing and these unprecedented massacres."
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