Jewish MP Meir Habib eulogized his colleague who died of the corona virus: "Guazagan always preceded everyone in the need to change France's diskette and protect the State of Israel"

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"Guazagan was a great friend of Israel in France and a true member of the Jewish people and the State of Israel," French MP Meir Habib eulogized Claude Guzagen in a conversation with "Israel Today." Claude Guazagan was a friend of Israel and died in the fifth after contracting the corona virus.

During his remarks, Habib said: "Claude was an ardent French patriot and a true member of the Jewish people, which was reflected throughout his years in office as he fought against anti-Semitism and also in his new face - the anti-Zionism. Without being able to elaborate, there are reasons why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Issued a warm condolence message immediately after the announcement of Claude's death. " 

Habib further said: "Not long ago, eight months in total, the left attacked me in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee when presenting a report describing the alleged Palestinian suffering and apartheid - and Guazagan on his part supported me and said: 'I want to salute the Jewish people and have great regret in my life "I wasn't born Jewish." It was especially exciting for me. " 

"Don't need a draft page in his speeches"

On his affiliation with Jews and Israel, Habib said: "Guzagan always preceded everyone in the need to change the thinking disk of France and H.C. Dorsey and protect the State of Israel. He understood before everyone that it was France's supreme interest - both morally and logically - to be close to Israel And that the problem of Israel and the Palestinians is not territories, so the Golan and the Jordan Valley should be left by Israel and not partitioned by Jerusalem, and he has done much for Christians in the East and the face that radical Islam is spreading throughout the world is a danger to us all. And legal, which gave even more compelling power to his reasoning. "

"Guzagan was a very dominant figure and a very strong man," Habib continued, "as a brilliant professor in the law faculty he did not need written material to come up with an original idea. I always marveled that he did not need any draft page in his speeches." 

Even during his tenure as mayor of Paris District 16 (ten years in total and a member of the Paris Council from 1983 until his death), Guazagan was also pioneering in being the first to hang Gilad Shalit's picture of the municipality's structure as a sign of identification with Israel. "There was no second for him in this regard."

"When I met his eyes it would give me strength"

Habib and Guasgen met when the former served as one of the leaders of the Crime Organization in France. This is a representative council of French Jewish institutions. Guzagan served as minister in the Shirak government for about six months. "We recognized 25 years ago when the French right was not an Israeli pro. However, he has always had this attraction to the Jewish people and the State of Israel and this has been evident throughout the years." 

"When I took up my position as a Member of the French Parliament eight years ago - Guazan immediately came to my aid. In the plenary and every discussion of Israel or anti-Semitism we would look each other. How I met his eyes would give me strength. He will miss me very much." . 

Another personal experience between the two occurred four years ago, following an anti-Semitic attack on a Jew in Marseille because they saw the dome on his head. "We both decided to enter the French parliament with a dome - something that is not customary and prohibited by the procedures in France. All the cameras are on us, I was pretty excited but it didn't move. It shows how scared he was to go with his truth to the end and he was always a pioneer. "Righteous Among the Nations today," Habib concluded with excitement.