Affected like many anonymous readers by the human price paid by Israeli citizens victims of Hamas’ mad attack, and consequently by the price to be paid by the population of Gaza, penned and locked inside a wall for so many years, I would like to be surprised by the lack of reaction from your editorial team (and from the international community as well as from the French political class) following the comments of the Israeli Minister of Defense that you report: “No “electricity, no food, no fuel,” asserted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. We fight human animals and we act accordingly. »
Having worked as an expert witness on this issue for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the stigmatization of an entire population, compared to animals and therefore denied all humanity, has served in the past to prepare and make possible the worst future atrocities against innocent civilian populations in the context of other past conflicts. It seems to me that in light of what happened particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Croatia, during the wars led by Slobodan Milosevic, or in Rwanda with the massacre of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in 1994, the democrats of all tendencies should condemn such remarks which open the door to a total carte blanche given to the Israeli army to, behind closed doors, act “accordingly”…
It seems to me that the strength of Israeli democracy would be to distinguish between the Palestinian population and radical Islamist groups. It is up to democrats around the world to remind us of this in this period of blindness where revenge prevails over reason.
Renaud de la Brosse, Marly-le-Roy (Yvelines)
