cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17417643
In a conversation held a few days before the elections, Macron warned Netanyahu that Chikli’s actions, which were openly and blatantly aimed at assisting Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party, constituted “unacceptable” interference in France’s internal affairs.
An Israeli official who is involved in contacts between the two countries described Chikli’s behavior as “a diplomatic bomb” and a number of other diplomats who spoke with Haaretz said Chikli hurt relations with France.
Right wingers helping right wingers. Don’t see the unusual.
Still nice to give frequent reminders that Netanyahu’s cabinet preferred political allies are parties of literal fascists and holocaust deniers.
Whenever Bibi is accusing his political enemies of antisemitism, it’s useful to take a look at who his friends are.
At this point, I place Israel in the same category as Russia, West Taiwan, and North Korea. They act only in their self-interest (like every other country) to an unreasonable degree. They don’t have allies, just ignorant coconspirators who they will stab in the back in a heartbeat.
Israel is a terrorist state as long as Netanyahu and those fucking weirdos are in charge.
It’s been a terrorist state from before it was founded.
Edit: this is a rant and does not address the issue, just points out Macron’s shittiness.
Well, Macron openly and blatantly assisted Le Pen’s far right party for the past sevent years. Idk what he’s playing so shocked about.
It was Macron and his cronies who started the train of “well the far right is bad but the left is anti semitic” on which the far right happily jumped. Nevermind that Le Pen’s party was actually created by an ex SS and that some of their candidates were seen having some nazi fun with friends.
A french newspaper just revealed that there have been secret dinners and meetings between people close to Macron and the far right’s leadership these past month, the latest happening 3 days after the national assembly surprise dissolution.
[Edit: It’s correct.]
Please either remove or add a source for this:
Nevermind that Le Pen’s party was actually created by an ex SS
Afaict, Jean-Marie Le Pen is the founder of FN/RN. He was born in 1928, and was trying to join Resistance in 1944:
In November 1944, aged 16, he was turned down (because of his age) by Colonel Henri de La Vaissière (then representative of the Communist Youth) when he attempted to join the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). – source
Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.
The English wikipedia article is not complete about the party’s foundation: Jean Marie Le Pen did found it, but not alone. Since he was the party’s president for almost 40 years, he’s the most known founder.
Among the co-founders were two ex-Waffen SS, Pierre Bousquet and Léon Gaultier. See the french wikipedia article for more details.Of course, he did beat up communists not much later when he was in uni.
And he did not stop there. During the Algerian independance war, he is believed to have tortured and supervised the torture of prisoners.
He’s been condemned at least 25 times for antisemitism, inciting hatred and discrimination, minimizing/excusing war crimes and piblic outrage (not sure about my translations, these are serious offenses in the french law). For example, he stated multiple times that the nazi’s crematory ovens were a detail of the ww2.
He’s been riling up the country against non-white and non-hetero people for the last decades. And he’s been president of a party that’s had litreral nazis and neonazis in its ranks, which he never seemed to care about.
