In France, this Sunday, we will march against the resurgence of a putrid anti-Semitism that was only waiting for the war in Gaza to wake up. In the Arab-Muslim world, by contrast, crowds demonstrate exclusively against "war crimes" committed by Israel and in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. The gap of incomprehension has rarely been so deep. Western countries do not condone the bombing of civilians in principle, but they do recognize Israel's right to eliminate Hamas' military and political structures, even at the cost of all-out war. Hadn't the anti-ISIS coalition, which Emmanuel Macron briefly wanted to resurrect, razed Mosul and Raqqa to the ground in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism?
Arab opinions, on the other hand, are focused on the seventy-five years of war, occupation and oppression suffered by the Palestinians since the creation of Israel in 1948. What shocks us is that they seem...
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