La présidente de l’Assemblée nationale a effectué durant le week-end un voyage express en Israël en compagnie des députés Les Républicains Éric Ciotti et Meyer Habib.
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00:00 The President of the National Assembly held during the weekend an express trip to Israel
00:04 accompanied by Republicans Eric Ciotti and Meir Habib.
00:07 What to send the signal of unconditional support to the response of Benjamin Netanyahu
00:12 in his war against Hamas.
00:14 A position in contradiction with the historical line of France and which divides within the
00:19 presidential relative majority.
00:20 After the words, the acts.
00:23 The President of the National Assembly, Yael Brown-Pivet, had expressed since his
00:28 departure on October 10, an unconditional support from France to Israel.
00:33 She now joins the gesture to the word with a 24-hour trip in the Hebrew state, accompanied
00:38 by the President of the Republican Party, LR, Eric Ciotti, the relative deputy LR of
00:43 the 8th French circumscription of the Foreign Office including Israel, Meir Habib and the
00:47 Renaissance deputy Mathieu Lefebvre, President of the Group of Friends France-Israel.
00:52 Their trip follows a first parliamentary trip.
00:55 Early in the week, a dozen LR, Renaissance and Horizon elected officials went to Israel,
01:02 accompanied by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, to demonstrate their solidarity to
01:06 the Israeli people and meet relatives of the victims or French hostages.
01:09 Now, with the departure of Yael Brown-Pivet, fourth figure of the French state, the symbol
01:16 of a support supported by France to Israel is even stronger.
01:19 France fully supports Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy that has been
01:24 attacked in a terrible way.
01:26 So we must not be mistaken, neither of combat, nor of words, she said, Sunday, October 22,
01:33 before leaving for Paris at the end of an express visit.
01:36 This trip was carried out out of solidarity with Israel and the French victims and in
01:41 the hope that diplomacy will prevent escalation and regionalization of the conflict, had
01:45 made the entourage of Yael Brown-Pivet worth it the day before.
01:48 He also aimed to encourage humanitarian convoys for civilian populations, as aid
01:53 began to enter Gaza on Saturday, coming from Egypt.
01:57 The delegation went to the borderless kibbutz of the Gaza Strip, where the massacres of
02:02 October 7 were taking place, perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, with
02:06 the president of the Knesset, Amir Hohanna.
02:08 And even if the president of the National Assembly takes care to write on X that Israel is legitimate
02:13 to defend itself, in respect of international law, the image sent back is that of unconditional
02:18 support, a line in contradiction with the official position of France and which divides
02:23 the presidential relative majority.
02:25 A pro-Israeli line that has imposed itself in Renaissance.
02:29 The signal that is sent still leans more on one side than the other.
02:33 The symbol is strong.
02:35 For my part, I do not take into account the expression of unconditional support to Israel.
02:41 Like others within the Renaissance group, I am on the line of the Kedorset.
02:45 My strength is to note that this is not the line adopted by the head of our group,
02:50 confided to France 24 the deputy of the Mireille Clapot majority.
02:53 Because beyond Yael Brown-Pivet and Mathieu Lefebvre, the president of the Renaissance group
02:58 at the National Assembly, Sylvain Maillard, is also a fervent defender of a pro-Israeli
03:03 line.
03:04 "We do not take our orders to the Kedorset", he himself said to Mediapart, assuming to
03:09 distance himself from French diplomacy.
03:11 Unlike these very audible deputies of the presidential majority, the Minister of Foreign
03:17 Affairs, Catherine Colonna, takes care to regularly remind that Israel, in its response
03:22 to the attack perpetrated by Hamas, has the duty to respect international law and therefore
03:26 to "ensure the protection of civilians or the Gaza Strip", and that in the end, the
03:30 solution to two states is the only viable one.
03:32 Access to water, health, is an obligation.
03:36 Imposing a siege that contravenes international law, underlines the minister in an interview
03:41 published on Sunday, October 22 by the Tribune Dimanche, while the Gaza Strip is the target
03:46 of incessant Israeli bombings having made more than 4,600 victims since the attack
03:50 of Hamas on October 7, in which more than 1,400 Israelis had been killed.
03:55 Yael Brown-Pivet's express trip appears all the more in contradiction with the official
04:00 position of France that the president of the National Assembly has chosen to go to Israel
04:04 with two representatives of the pro-Israeli line of LR.
04:07 "I don't like seeing Siotis and Habib in the picture.
04:11 I don't like seeing Eric Siotis and Meir Habib, who have very tough positions
04:16 vis-à-vis the Palestinians, in the same picture as people from the Renaissance, regret Mireille
04:20 Clapot.
04:21 If I wanted to send messages of cessation of hostilities, it is not with them that I
04:26 would do it.
04:27 Eric Siotis never does in nuance and humanism.
04:30 As for Meir Habib, he considers that whatever Benjamin Netanyahu does, Benjamin Netanyahu
04:36 is right.
04:37 A survey by Radio France's Cell Investigation had in particular revealed, in October 2021,
04:42 that Meir Habib, very close to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, was playing a very active
04:47 diplomatic role in relations between France and Israel, systematically adopting
04:51 a pro-Likud positioning at the National Assembly, the formation of the head of the Israeli government.
04:56 For the opposition on the left as well, this move and its casting are a mistake.
05:01 I understand very well that we support the Israeli people and that we bring them our
05:06 solidarity, what they have experienced is a horror.
05:09 The difficulty is that Mrs. Brone-Pivet and those at the Assembly spoke of unconditional
05:13 support for Israel, emphasized the First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier
05:18 Faure, on Sunday, October 22, on France 3, also criticizing the presence of Eric Siotis
05:23 and Meir Habib, of the "falcons", on a line without nuance.
05:26 During this time, Mrs. Brone-Pivet camped Tel Aviv to encourage the massacre.
05:31 Not in the name of the French people, the leader of the French Insoumise, Jean-Luc
05:37 Blanchon, on the social network X.
05:39 Yael Brone-Pivet sees things differently.
05:42 What is important is that the civilian populations in Gaza are the least possible victims of
05:48 this conflict.
05:49 But we also know that they often serve as human shields.
05:51 They must be preserved of course, but nothing should prevent Israel from defending itself.
05:56 "There is an attacker and attackers," she insisted.
06:00 There is no doubt that the positions of the President of the National Assembly will not
06:04 be lacking in making people react.
06:06 The Parliament must thus debate the situation in the Middle East on Monday at 4 p.m. at the
06:11 National Assembly and Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. at the Senate, with a statement from the government
06:15 and a series of interventions from the various political groups.