DECRYPTION – The European Union has described its armed wing as terrorist since 2013. Recently, the United Kingdom and Germany no longer make the distinction, aligning themselves with the United States.
While Joe Biden described the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah as “measure of justice”French diplomacy remained silent, prompting harsh comments from certain observers. “I don’t remember seeing any official statement reminding that Hezbollah’s garbage killed many French people in the past and that they fully deserve to perish”reacted in particular the former colonel of the marine troops and military historian Michel Goya.
The Lebanese Shiite movement instigated numerous attacks in France in the 1980s in reaction to French support given to Iraq in its war against Iran. And above all, he is today strongly suspected of being responsible for the attack sponsored by Iran at the Drakkar hotel in Beirut in 1983, the deadliest in the history of the French army.
During his general policy speech, the Prime Minister also paid tribute to the “58 paratroopers…
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