The telescoping of the tragedies is terrifying, but it was unfortunately predictable. The global shock wave of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the new murder of a teacher in France by an Islamist radicalized: how can we not recognize two sides of the same war? How can we fail to admit that 'everything is connected', to use the words of the former Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer?
The terrorist act in Arras came the day after Emmanuel Macron's strong televised address on the Middle East, in which he warned against importing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict onto national soil. It is too early and it may be impossible to establish a direct link between Hamas' call for a global "day of rage" and the act of this S-file for radicalization. But it is a fact that in the run-up to the Israeli counteroffensive, the French security services feared isolated acts as much as collective operations
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