Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Every week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox. He has just published
War Journal. It is the West that is being assassinated
(Fayard).
This column was written on a plane on Sunday between Tel Aviv and Paris. Saturday night was short. We were waiting near the shelters for the arrival of drones and ballistic missiles from the Islamic Republic. Israel is standing, to use the title “Fight”, on the second day of the Six-Day War. This is not a learned geostrategic article, which we would be hard-pressed to write. We simply note that the IDF succeeded in eliminating 99% of the devices sent from the sky by the Iranian state, with, in particular, Jordanian assistance.
At the time of writing, we did not know whether an Israeli response would take place. Perhaps it would take place before we landed. Or perhaps there will be no response, due to American pressure. And this, despite the imminent Islamic atomic danger. Our reflection is elsewhere, and, as often in these troubling moments, revolves around the hatred of Israel or the goodwill that a country like the Iran of turbans inspires in the same people.
Before we try it, let us first settle a point of moral and diplomatic law that I addressed in my previous column. I was a little annoyed to read or hear here or there, and more here than there, that the attack against the annex of the Iranian consulate in Syria, a country in a state of belligerence with Israel, was "a first". Let's quickly move on to Israeli responsibility in this, this country, unlike these enemies, rarely contesting that it is daylight at noon. But, as I wrote last week, “a first”? Nay! It was a bit hasty to forget the attack perpetrated in 1992 against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in Argentina, a country with which Iran was not in a state of belligerence. The 75 victims of this attack were undoubtedly more innocent than the recently disappeared Revolutionary Guards. I wrote last week that arrest warrants had been issued in vain by the authorities in Buenos Aires against high-ranking Iranian dignitaries. But, as if to definitively settle the question and by a disturbing coincidence, on Thursday April 11, the Argentine courts condemned Iran and its creature Hezbollah for having perpetrated this non-prescribed crime.
It takes character to support a huge oil country of 90 million inhabitants against a small nation of 9 million citizens, surrounded by enemies.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
It is strange as well as regrettable, in the dramatic context that we know, that the international press did not give more importance to this important judicial event. This would have saved him from talking about “a first” last week. This would also and above all have prevented a number of hypocrites or fancy jurists from justifying the Iranian attack with a casus belli. As if, conversely, supporting the terrorist Hamas and Hezbollah to attack its civilians was not intrinsically a permanent casus belli for Israel. In a world of good faith, however.
Because let us now get straight to the heart of our subject: the support, by some, starting with the members of France Insoumise, of an Islamic tyranny against a democratic state. Because it takes character to support a huge oil country of 90 million inhabitants against a small nation of 9 million citizens, surrounded by enemies. A country certainly of high tradition, inhabited by an exceptional people, but governed by a fanatical caste who have sworn the destruction by fire and blood of the abhorred “Zionist entity”.
A caste which has used terrorist weapons against its opponents or enemies since it took power. Who arbitrarily arrests and imprisons such a foreigner and uses him as a hostage to exchange him for his terrorists arrested in targeted countries. As he is currently doing for the French, in the indifference of their press. This was also the case with the Belgian justice system, which released an Iranian terrorist whom it had condemned for having carried out an attempted attack on French soil against opponents of the mullahs, gathered at a congress in Villepinte. We cannot say that Belgium and France, including the press, were very concerned about it.
There is among them a pathological anti-Westernism, a hatred of the old Judeo-Christian world, largely unconscious, as they have been instilled from the bottle by this deadly ideology which prefers to agree with a bearded man in a violent turban than with an innocent person. Small white.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
So, does this regime which forcibly veils women and violently represses all opposition arouse the disapproval it deserves? Precisely, critical attention is also sharpened in the media, regarding the tyrannical and theocratic country of 90 million inhabitants, compared to the hundreds of thousands of lines and signs devoted to the small nation, certainly imperfect but democratic, which he swore to destroy? For example, it would be difficult to see such an evening daily being as moralizing and judgmental towards Tehran as it does towards its tiny adversary, on a daily basis. As for public broadcasting, one of its editorialists took pleasure in emphasizing on Sunday morning the “restraint” of the ayatollahs. Nothing less.
It is in this context of an inhuman as well as superhuman injustice, totally impervious to the respective dimensions of the adversaries present, that we can already try to understand how the Insoumis, from David Guiraud to Thomas Portes, from Éric Coquerel to Ersilia Suddenly, they can support a bloodthirsty tyranny, without excessive complexes. Even though the Palestinian cause cannot be enlisted this time.
I come to the explanation of this dishonorable support. There is Jewish obsession or timeless anti-Semitism, certainly. There is cynical electoralism and allegiance to Islamism, without a doubt. But above all, I will never stop pleading, there is a pathological anti-Westernism among them, a hatred of the old Judeo-Christian world, largely unconscious, as they have been instilled from the bottle by this deadly ideology. who would rather agree with a bearded man in a violent turban than with an innocent little white man. A fortiori when he defends himself.
I know that the many French people who think that we can firmly demand the expulsion of foreign rapists without being xenophobic will understand me. I landed in Paris, it's Monday.