Mohammad Iryakat has seen the first hand shifting stance on the crisis in the Gaza Strip, he had once received to wear kafiah from the taunts, a scarf that symbolizes Palestinian solidarity, to be part of a broader opposition, when the Palestinian enclave had havoc.
Now, a student of Paris -based Palestinian law has experienced another change after the announcement of President Emmanuel Macron on 24 July. France wants to recognize Palestinian state At the United Nations General Assembly in September.
“It is very symbolic, but eventually important,” 30 -year -old Irikat said about the recognition of the stage, even he prefers difficult options such as boycott and restrictions against Israel. Nevertheless, he said that this step would “build on another for one new era.”
The Iriqat’s reaction resonates the fracture response to Macron’s platform in France, which is rapidly divided into the French political class and deepening the tension between Muslim communities, the largest communities in Western Europe. The two have seen high speed in the attacks since the Israeli-Hamas struggle erupted about two years ago. Even with a partition on the recognition of the forum, both religions worry that their frightening relationships may move forward.
Zerrard Anagar, vice -president of the French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) Representative Council, said, “The war has ended many relationships, between the two leaders and the population,” Jerrard Finger, vice -president of the French Jewish Institutes (CRIF) represented council, told D.W. “Both sides rarely speak now. Each party knows that if they do, each will declare a victim.”
Krif is among those who destroy the declaration of Macron with French conservative and far-flung politicians. In a statement, the Jewish group called it “moral defects, a diplomatic error and a political threat”.
“Macron is not respecting his own busyness,” finger said. He said that the French President still determined the status of UNMET to recognize the Palestinian platform, which included the release of Israel’s hostages and the “demilitization” of Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group, which has a terrorist organization as Israel, European Union, United States and others. “It explains the anger and disappointment of the Jewish community.”
Other mainly Judy figures are very rapidly important. “This is an opportunistic decision,” advocate Arno Classfeld, son of famous Nazi hunter Serge Classfeld, told French conservative CNEWS TV. “It strengthens divorce with the Jewish community in France, with Israel and the United States quite chills and reinforces Hamas.”
It is not surprising that many Muslim leaders and leftist parties of France have saluted the approximate step broadly.
Abdulla Zaiki, vice president of the French Council of Muslim Vishwas, said, “Mr. Macron’s decision has been received with great satisfaction and happiness.” “We hope that it will translate into reality in September, without any precondition.”
France makes U-turn on Gaza struggle
There is some controversy that Macron’s state announcement marks a diplomatic U-turn. Two weeks after the Hamas -led attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, the French President called for an international alliance to fight Hamas, leaving “unconditional support” for Israel in Jerusalem. Last year, he led a ceremony for the French victims of the Hamas attack, called it “the biggest anti -social attack of our century”.
But Macron is reportedly shaken by Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis and Israel’s ongoing military campaign. According to the Hamas-operated Health Ministry in Enclave, the conflict in Gaza has killed over 62,000 people, and many currently suffer from broad famine.
In June, France closed several Israeli weapons, which refuse to remove the weapons of their performance in the Paris Air Show, raising the Israeli fury.
This may declare Macron’s intention to recognize the Palestinian platform, one step Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized, saying that it was “award of terror”. France, France, along with Saudi Arabia, co-conceived a United Nations Conference in New York on 28 July.
How the French public felt about the Palestinian platform
The pole suggests that most French people support this idea. But a June 1 survey by the French Institute of Public Opinion, sponsored by Krif, suggests that the remaining Israeli hostage during the October 7 attacks wants to surrender Freed and Hamas as conditions.
The Jewish Council’s Anagar said, “Most French Jews are not hostile to a two-state solution”, the Jewish Council said. Most “Consider the situation in Gaza with thousands of dead,” Hey said, even they blame Hamas, not Israel for war.
Like The Krif, Pierre Stambul, who is the head of the small French Jewish Association for peace, ie criticism Macron’s state announcement but for various reasons.
“This is completely hypocrisy,” he said. “What France is doing is nothing. Many states already recognize the state of Palestine.”
Rabbi Michelle Serfety, who has worked for years for the manufacture of interfaith ties, is what a non -composition about Macron’s announcement.
“Let’s see how our fellow Muslims want a response,” said. “Is there just to live peacefully in interests.”
‘Politics is politics. People are people ‘
The Middle East incidents have long protested in France, where roughly 500,000 Jews and more than 6 million Muslims of the country are rose to similar North African roots. Both Jews and Muslims have seen a spike in a physical and oral attack at the beginning of the Israeli-Hamas struggle in Gaza.
Krif’s Anagar said that anti -anti -deficit attacks have been “multiplied by two or three.
Zaiki of the French Muslim Council removed the uniform optic. “Personally, I have received Ham’s slices in my mailbox, the danger sent to my house is,” Heer said. Many Muslims, he said, do not report the search acts to the police.
At Paris’s 19th Aendessment, some of the city’s largest Muslim and Jewish population, many refused to interview. A group of hatidic men, while chatting outside a religious book shop in a sunny afternoon, accepted only that complex.
“We are not looking for problems,” one said. “We try to have good relations with Arabs.”
Some blocks away, Algerian businessman Karim Kata said that both communities “try to avoid politics.”
“We have known each other for a long time,” he said, pointing to nearby Jewish businesses, which includes the fundamental butchers that provide employment to Muslim workers. “We respect each other. Politics is politics. People are people.”
More different-Filistini protests in France
The Paris Law Student, Irikat, four years ago for France has no stranger for a mover and stress intervals. Hey Diskres slashed against him on the road and peeped to involve the pro-Filistini demonstrations, which was banned on public order concerns.
“It is difficult to wear any signal that suggests that you are Palestinian,” he recalled early protests that mainly attract Muslims. “To wear Kafiah, keep the Palestinian flag – it was very difficult.”
Soon, however, however, “We started looking at a lot of French, even the Jewish community, leftist Jews,” said Iryakat. “I noticed that they started feeling sorry about what was happening.”
Born at the West Bank occupied, he still recalls the day when Israeli soldiers shot and killed one of their uncles, as the man was studying on the roof of the family’s roof. At that time Iriqat was 4 years old.
“I remember everything – even the smell of my grandmother’s food was cooking,” Heer said. “I remember the pieces of my uncle’s brain on the stairs of my house.”
He hopes that the United States, the United States, wants to follow the suit and eventually destroys a system that he explains as apartheid.
“I am dedicating my life to Palestine and Palestinians,” Irikat said, who plans to stay in France and continue their studies.
“When I am fighting for Palestine,” he says, “I am fighting for the interests of Israelies.”
Edited by: Davis Vanopadorp
