After the firing of Iranian missiles towards Israel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon estimated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at war with Iran in accordance with “his plan”. For former President of the Republic François Hollande, the leader of La France insoumise makes “anti-Israeli remarks” to mobilize “working-class neighborhoods” and by “electoral calculation”.
After the missiles fired at Israel by Iran, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France insoumise, estimated that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, was entering “war with Iran”. “After Lebanon and Yemen, Netanyahu is going to war with Iran. This has been his plan for months with the various assassinations,” he assured on X (formerly Twitter).
“Netanyahu is plunging the entire region into total war. He is exposing the people of Israel to the worst risks in its history. He has ruined the peace and the right to life of millions of people. Now he is paying for the whole world the price of its impunity, absolute urgency to immediately stop the unfolding catastrophe,” continued Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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“An anti-Israeli speech to mobilize working-class neighborhoods”
Comments which did not fail to provoke a reaction from the former President of the Republic François Hollande, now also a member of the left-wing alliance, the NFP. “Israel is the target that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has chosen from the start,” assures the former head of state this Wednesday on RMC and BFMTV.
“Jean-Luc Mélenchon thinks that it is by making an anti-Israeli speech that he can mobilize popular neighborhoods. He is making an electoral calculation, while I imagine having convictions which are not mine,” continues François Holland.
“It’s dangerous because women and men from working-class neighborhoods are perhaps not the only ones to have sympathy for the Palestinian cause,” adds the former President of the Republic. “But it is through social issues, education and the economy that we will be able to live together and that we will not pit the French against each other.”
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“There are always disagreements between the two lefts. There has always been a radical, insurrectional, revolutionary left, and a reformist left to which I belong,” believes François Hollande. “The class struggle has long been the position of the radical left, but it is not the struggle of the communities,” adds the former President of the Republic.
After the Iranian missile strikes which hit Israel on Tuesday evening, François Hollande believes that it is “legitimate” to defend Israel and that France must take a position of “firmness and openness”.
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