He denounces a “political error”.
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon estimated Thursday that Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné made a mistake by declaring that accusing Israel of "genocide" amounted to "crossing a moral threshold" and by accusing the Insoumis of not “not be clear about Hamas”.
On Wednesday, in the National Assembly, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs declared: “Accusing the Jewish State of genocide is crossing a moral threshold.
The notion of genocide cannot be exploited for political purposes.”
“When you are the Minister of Foreign Affairs of a country which is a party to the 1948 Convention for the Prevention and Prohibition of Genocide, you must weigh every word and every comma.
To speak like that is to suggest that a conclusion of the ICJ which (…) would rule on a genocide, would not be admitted by France, which considered that it was a limit crossed,” denounced the three-time candidate. from the radical left to the presidential election.
Political leaders cannot express themselves through "bloody strokes", "approximate formulas" or under the influence of "emotion", asserted Thursday Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who was last week in The Hague to support the referral to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, which accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza.
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During his stay this week in Lebanon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon explained that he met the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Joseph Aoun, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
L’Insoumis specified that it had participated on site in “an in-depth working session with the staff of the French embassy”.
“Clowneries”
The founder of LFI, who gave a press conference after a trip to Lebanon, also announced that the rebellious MP Éric Coquerel was in the process of setting up a "delegation as large and extensive as possible" with ideally "French parliamentarians from all the edges” to get to Rafah, on the border between Egypt and Gaza.
Concerning this delegation, which must soon go to Rafah, the founder of LFI specified that “the authorization from the Egyptians” had “arrived”.
Asked about a possible presence on his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared “not to run behind exhausting trips”.
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His return Wednesday evening to the airport was disrupted by activists from the collective fighting against anti-Semitism “We Live” who shouted “Rebellious, Hamas says thank you.”
“No one jumped on me, they waved signs that said stupid things,” he simply commented, speaking of “clowneries”.