"I hesitated Babeth before coming," says Anne Sinclair at the outset on the set of "C à vous" on Tuesday, October 10. And for good reason. The 75-year-old journalist was invited by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to react to Hamas' attack on Israel. Since Saturday, October 7, the country has been the target of a surprise and unprecedented attack by Hamas. In three days, more than 700 Israelis were killed.
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And although the subject is particularly close to Anne Sinclair's heart, it is not easy to deal with. "I don't like to speak emotionally. On the other hand, I wondered where my place was because I am not a specialist in geopolitics. I don't have any lessons to give," she insists before the interview even begins, as if to justify her presence on the set.
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"I wanted to give a little account - in this country where everyone knows each other - of what was this abominable tragedy, this carnage, this massacre, this terror," the guest describes as "C à vous". The former presenter of the political magazine "7 sur 7" does not hesitate when it comes to characterizing this terrible event as a "progrom" and a "terrorist act, obviously military, prepared".
"How would we have reacted?"
"These are killers who came to massacre. It's something we haven't seen since Daesh. The parallel jumped out at me because we lived through the Bataclan on November 13 and a whole bunch of other attacks," Sinclair recalls sadly, before attempting a kind of parallel on the number of deaths since the beginning of the Hamas attack on Israel. "Nearly 1000,10 deaths, it's as if in France - in proportion to the population - there were 000,2800 deaths. 28 wounded would be 000,<> injured. How would we have reacted?" asks the Franco-American journalist in front of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
The former journalist is also keen to recall who these victims were, beyond the young people killed during the "Tribe of Nova" festival. "They weren't settlers. These were people who lived in kibbutzim [...] and who suddenly felt totally abandoned. It's a country that has gone from being overpowered to extremely fragile."
"It's causing a deep cloud about Israel's identity," Sinclair said. Already in the spring, the latter warned about the country's security. "For almost three months, I have been ashamed and afraid of what is happening in Israel," she said on March 29 in the columns of Le Monde.
However, as columnist Aurélie Casse reminds us, some find it difficult to talk about a terrorist attack and more particularly France Insoumise. After Cyril Hanouna last night, it is Anne Sinclair's turn to express herself on the subject unequivocally. "Actions speak for who people are. When you have all these ambiguities, at the end of the day, you end up being what you say," she says, referring in particular to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Louis Boyard and Mathilde Panot.