Barbara Lefebvre: "When the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveals the anti-French ideology"

Barbara Lefebvre, teacher and essayist, is the author of

Génération j'ai le droit

(ed. Albin Michel, 2018).

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After a week of violence between the Hebrew state and Islamist Hamas, we hear in France through the voice of politicians, journalists, the recurring invocation to ensure "

do not import the conflict into France.

". Is it naivety, cynicism, denial? Anyone gifted with reason can see that for years, this conflict has been featured in our national news in Europe, and particularly in France where a Jewish community of around 470,000 people live alongside a Muslim community roughly estimated between 5 and 8 million people (according to statistical methods). During the second intifada (2000-2005), we saw, in France, the outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence committed by Muslims who for the majority of them have little knowledge of Middle-Eastern geopolitics. We remember the antiphon of a "

Palestinian genocide

" committed by the

Nazisraelis

(and still present yesterday on the placards in the demonstrations) which for a long time seemed acceptable in public speeches; nobody dreaming of recalling that in 1944 Mandatory Palestine had 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs and that they are now more than 5 million ...

Since the 2000s, French Jews threatened and murdered by French Muslims have been threatened in the name of jihad and frequently of the Palestinian cause. Did the French Jews retaliate against these multiple attacks with arms? Did they retaliate against mosques or Hallal businesses? Did they organize demonstrations screaming "

death to Muslims

"? Have Jewish students formed peer groups to harass Muslim students? If there is any importation, it comes exclusively from the Islamists and the troops who obey them by mobilizing in the name of "

the Palestinian cause

" when it comes to shouting "

Death to Israel!"

”(Like yesterday again during the demonstrations). When Ilan Halimi was kidnapped in 2006, kidnapped, tortured and executed, the Palestinian cause served as a catalyst for his tormentors, as Yousouf Fofana's words on "

the blood of Palestinian children

proved."

»And the propalestinian documentation found in the homes of some jailers (all released today). Ditto for the jihadists of Toulouse and Vincennes, ditto for the assassin of Sarah Halimi, Kobili Traoré and his band of friends whose comments on social networks leave no doubt about their powerfully colored Palestinian anti-Semitism. Why are these Muslims only passionate about Palestinians? Why do French Muslim associations organize more than half of their charitable actions in favor of this cause when in the Muslim world the level of educational, health and economic underdevelopment should mobilize European Muslims much more? Not to mention their relative indifference to the plight of oppressed Muslim minorities in Asia.

The jihadist dimension is immediately present in the Palestinian narrative through figures such as Izz al-Din al-Qassam a Syrian Sufi imam living in Haifa, then the Muslim Brother Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, who will settle in Berlin to collaborate directly with the Third Reich.

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For decades the Arab states have exported this conflict by instrumentalizing the Palestinian national cause, on the one hand to divert the attention of Muslim crowds from their own political carelessness, on the other hand to continue to nurture an anti-Judaism consubstantial with the Koranic narrative on which has always been based on Arab nationalism. The

mujahedin

, whether Algerian, Afghan, Somali, Syrian or Chechen, was and remains a fighter of the faith engaged in

jihad

in the literal sense. The nationalist dimension of the conflict in which the

mujahedin

fits

does not in any way remove its spiritual dimension, the fuel of its nationalism, and not the other way around. But for the secularized European states of the 20th century, and decultured in the 21st century, this double spiritual and nationalist dimension is incomprehensible, or reduced to folklore. However, all contemporary conflicts in which Muslim states or groups are involved are marked with the seal of

jihad

, because it alone allows the aggregation of Muslims of all ethnic origins. Not understanding it, or refusing to see it when it is expressed in our European countries, is the guarantee of not being ready to respond to it when the time comes. the

jihad

is the driving force behind the import-export of political conflicts beyond their fields of expression; his role is in no way incidental to maintain the union of the

Umma

, increasingly threatened by globalization and acculturation. The weaker the Muslim world is economically, culturally, politically, socially, the more it clings to its founding myths, to the original Islam. However, whether it pleases beautiful souls or not, this early Islam is marked by political violence. The theological arbitration was made several centuries ago: the bellicose Medinan Koran defeated the peaceful Meccan Koran. The tolerant prophet ready to debate and cohabit with otherness was defeated by Mohamed the warlord. This Islam of the origins in popular accounts (which is not that of academics, but which is much more powerful!) Is the one where the first act of political union of Mohamed and his troops recently installed in Medina will beexterminate the Jews of the oasis of Khaybar in 628. Is it then surprising that in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in France, as everywhere else, we hear the crowds screaming: "

Khaybar Khaybar ya yahoud, Jaych Mhammad sa yaaoud

”(“

Khaybar Khaybar to the Jews, Mohamed's army will return

”).

Import, you say?

Islamization and jihadization of geopolitics, more surely.

The Palestinian cause is the paragon of the exported cause.

At the start of the 20th century, from the British era, Arab leaders - who were not yet called "Palestinians" - were already galvanizing the Muslim populations beyond the borders of Mandatory Palestine.

The Arabs had supported the Ottoman rule for centuries in the greatest underdevelopment because he was Muslim, they would not support the model of

kouffars

English, still less

sheitans

Zionists. This will lead to multiple pogroms organized against Jewish villages from 1920 and the inaugural attack on Tel Haï. The jihadist dimension is immediately present in the Palestinian narrative through figures such as Izz al-Din al-Qassam a Syrian Sufi imam living in Haifa, then the Muslim Brother Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, who will settle in Berlin to collaborate directly with the Third Reich. Al-Husseini at the head of the Arab High Committee coordinates after the war (thanks to French solicitude he was able to leave Europe liberated in 1945 with complete impunity) terrorist actions in the name of jihad with young Muslims recruited in Egypt, in Syria: “

I declare jihad, my Muslim brothers. Kill the Jews! Kill them all !

". Massacres of Jews took place in response to the appeals of the "

Palestinian leaders

" in Egypt and Lebanon from 1945, in Libya in 1948, Syria in 1949. As regards the import-export of the conflict, all this is therefore archi - known to historians. When the 1947 partition plan was validated by the UN, accepted by the Zionist camp and refused by the Arab camp despite the territorial advantages granted, the allied Arab countries launched their war of extermination aimed at "

throwing the Jews into the

sea.

sea

», Demanding of Arab families that they abandon their homes to allow the Arab armies to pass, since the conquest would be rapid and bloody. These armies were defeated by a nascent Israeli army which lost much of its youth in this war of independence. Since then, lucidity about the motivation of the enemy has never failed the Israelis. This is undoubtedly what explains Israeli agility and responsiveness for more than seven decades. Europe, which deludes itself, obviously does not have the means to understand what it is all about, nor how much what is happening in Israel concerns it from a civilizational point of view.

France will be struck on August 9, 1982 rue des Rosiers where six people lose their lives;

France negotiated with the Palestinian group of Abu Nidal and no one was ever tried for these facts.

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In 1948, long decades of abandonment and political instrumentalisation opened up for Palestinian civilians, one of the driving forces of which was the “import-export” of this cause: the Arab States used them to serve their own interests both within regional and international conflicts. Egypt occupies Gaza, Jordan occupies Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem (Old City included), Syria occupies the Golan Heights. Between 1948 and 1967, what rights did these Arab countries grant to their "Palestinian brothers"? What political and economic perspectives have they offered them? What has the Arab League implemented to help the Palestinians obtain through diplomatic channels,State whose erratic strategy of their own leaders deprived them in 1948? Then came the even more distressing time of the Palestinian leaders of the PLO and the PFLP. They exported the conflict by projecting it into international terrorism, targeting Jews around the world and not just “Israeli interests”. From 1967, attacks and hijacking of planes in Europe in abundance, car bombings etc. France will be struck on August 9, 1982 rue des Rosiers where six people lose their lives; France negotiated with the Palestinian group of Abu Nidal and no one was ever tried for these facts. The same year in Antwerp, thirty years before the attack on the Ozar a-Torah school (the Toulouse assassin said he was avenging Palestinian children),a Palestinian terrorist attacked a Jewish school killing a child.

The history and chronology of the attacks committed by Palestinian terrorism in Europe and around the world have been forgotten, erased by the heroisation enjoyed in the 1990s by Yasser Arafat, the gravedigger of the Palestinian cause, the organizer of the mechanism of corruption of the Palestinian Authority, unwavering support for the Palestinian jihadist currents inventors of the contemporary suicide attack. The false Palestinian narrative (largely inspired by the Islamic historical revision carried out at the end of the conquests in the 7th century) has so easily convinced in the West that one can only wonder about the conscious and unconscious motives of the anti-Zionist bias common to intellectual elites. and Western policies for at least four decades.They do not want to know that for more than 1600 years the Jews constituted the main population of this region which they call Palestine (name imposed by the Roman occupiers). Despite the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman conquests, the Jews were in the majority. Forced into exile by Roman power, Jewish homes remained alive under Rome and then the Ottomans around the four main Jewish urban centers, Safed, Tiberias, Hebron and Jerusalem, and secondary ones in Gaza, Rafah, Ashkelon, Jaffa, Jericho. Never "exile by Roman power, Jewish homes remained alive under Rome then the Ottomans around the four main Jewish urban centers, Safed, Tiberias, Hebron and Jerusalem, and secondary in Gaza, Rafah, Ashkelon, Jaffa, Jericho. Never "exile by Roman power, Jewish homes remained alive under Rome then the Ottomans around the four main Jewish urban centers, Safed, Tiberias, Hebron and Jerusalem, and secondary in Gaza, Rafah, Ashkelon, Jaffa, Jericho. Never "

Palestine

”was not a land without Jews. Ottoman Jerusalem was predominantly populated by Jews, and Muslims barely a quarter of its population.

From al-Husseini to Ismail Haniyyeh, via Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, not a Palestinian Muslim leader who does not exploit the symbolic figure of the Mosque esplanade to stir up anti-Jewish violence. And in charity galas in favor of Palestine that take place in France, it is always the image of the Mosque of Omar or that of Al Aqsa that is highlighted to urge the faithful to donate. European commentators repeat like parrots that this place is holy for Islam, without recalling that it is first and foremost the most sacred place of Judaism. It is on the Ar a-Beit (Temple Mount), where until 70 stood the Temple, that the Muslim conquerors erected their mosques, because itis the founding place of Jewish monotheism and especially of its national sovereignty. To be the ultimate religion which comes to close the divine project, to erect the new world of the true faith, Islam must come to take root literally and figuratively in the original land of Judaism. This replacement is not just a question of a religious monument, it is an ontological issue for Islam. Today, Jews still do not have the right to come to pray in this place, the Israeli police make sure that no Jew "provokes" Muslim wrath there by saying aloud any prayers whatsoever. On the other hand, the Palestinian leaders like to launch rumors of abuses committed against the mosques or the faithful to start the intifada and other agitations. VS'did Hamas a few days ago before launching its thousands of missiles at civilians.

We must accept to confront the Israeli-Palestinian reality with our reality of difficult cohabitation with anti-France Islamists.

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The religious dimension of the conflict is central or even total in popular Muslim imaginations, there and here!

Wanting to place our rational Western representations in it a la Metternich is infantilism.

On April 30, 1999, the official Palestinian Authority radio broadcast the following message which perfectly sums up the discourse that has been held in the Muslim world for decades: “

The territory of Muslim Palestine is a single entity which cannot be divided. There is no difference between Haifa and Nablus, between Lod and Ramallah, nor between Jerusalem and Nazareth. The land of Palestine is a land of the Waqf devoted to all Muslims, east and west. The liberation of Palestine is an obligation for all Islamic nations and not just for the Palestinian nation

". This kind of message has continued to be reiterated and gained in audience with the development of violent Islamism after September 11 and since Hamas came to power in Gaza (2007). Therefore, anyone who knows the context in its historical depth as much as in its cultural dimension should not be surprised that the importation of the conflict is inevitable. The presence in France of a minority but powerful Islamist movement, having sympathies for jihadism, nourishing a virulent anti-Judaism, should lead commentators and politicians to be more lucid.

They should also agree to confront the Israeli-Palestinian reality with our reality of difficult cohabitation with anti-France Islamists. The ease with which these currents arrogate to themselves historical rights over the territories where they settle, impose their ways of life, rule over those who will be tolerated (the dhimmis paying tribute) and those who will not be, should be of concern. those who intend to lead the French nation in the coming decade. Will they have the courage and the pugnacity of the Israeli nation to defend its right to exist?