French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has declared that “Jerusalem MUST be the capital of two states – Israel and one that does not yet exist – Palestine.
Hugh Fitzgerald“Jerusalem must become the capital of both states, Israel and a Palestinian state, pending a negotiated settlement of the conflict,” said French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen during a press briefing on foreign policy issues.
Robert Spencer asks What “negotiated settlement of the conflict” is she talking about?
The one that Yasir Arafat turned down flat in 2000, when Ehud Barak offered him some 92% of the West Bank and 100% of the Gaza Strip, with some territorial compensation for the Palestinians from pre-1967 Israeli territory; the dismantling of most of the settlements, and the concentration of the bulk of the settlers inside the 8% of the West Bank to be annexed by Israel; the establishment of the Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem, in which some Arab neighborhoods would become sovereign Palestinian territory and others would enjoy “functional autonomy”; Palestinian sovereignty over half the Old City of Jerusalem (the Muslim and Christian quarters) and “custodianship,” though not sovereignty, over the Temple Mount? Not good enough; Arafat didn’t discuss the offer. He just walked out.
Or did Marine Le Pen have in mind that “negotiated settlement of the conflict” that Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas 2008, which included 94% of the West Bank, and territorial compensation to the Palestinians consisting of Israeli land equivalent to 5.8 percent of the West Bank, along with a link to the Gaza Strip, as well as offering to withdraw from Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and to place the Old City under international control? Not good enough. Abbas didn’t discuss the offer. He just walked out.
The “national aspiration” of the Israelis is simply to survive and thrive, in the ancient homeland, of the Jews, the very territory that was assigned by the League of Nations to be included in Mandatory Palestine, which then was to become the reconstituted commonwealth of the Jews, the Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
Israeli authorities have so far refused to receive Le Pen because she is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, a convicted Holocaust denier who stated that the Holocaust was a mere “detail” of the Second World War.
And since then, Le Pen may not have realized, it is the Palestinians who have refused to negotiate face-to-face with Israel. They want others involved, to take their side against Israel, the way that Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski took Sadat’s side against Begin in the negotiations leading to the Camp David Accords in 1979. Mahmoud Abbas is waiting for the Quartet – Russia, the EU, the UN, and the U.S. – to take charge of negotiations, for he knows perfectly well that three members of that Quartet are on the side of the Palestinians, with only the U.S. providing a modicum of fairness.
France advocates the creation of a Palestinian state and considers that Jerusalem must become the capital of both states pending a negotiated settlement of the conflict and under international law,” Le Pen added, stressing that Paris does not “recognize any sovereignty over Jerusalem.
Early in April, in an interview with i24NEWS, she had also said that the transfer of the French embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was “not on the agenda.” She pleaded in favor of an “international status” for the city.
Why isn’t the transfer of the French Embassy to Jerusalem “on the agenda”? Does Marine Le Pen not know that Jews have lived continuously in Jerusalem for more than 3000 years? That Jerusalem has always been the political and religious capital of the Jewish people? That Jerusalem is where the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount, is located? That Jerusalem is where the First and Second Temple were built? Why can’t she, if elected, not only fight to “put it [the Embassy move] on the agenda,” but also make sure that the transfer of the French Embassy to Jerusalem takes place? Donald Trump transferred the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and the sky did not fall, as some had feared. Not a single Arab state cut off relations with the U.S., or ceased to sell oil to the Americans, or stopped buying American weapons and technology.
According to Le Pen, “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be resolved by the creation of a viable and democratic independent Palestinian state living in peace and security alongside Israel on borders based on the 1967 lines. This is a fair, equitable and agreed solution to the problems of refugees.”
A “viable and democratic” Palestinian state? How likely is it that that will be achieved? Of the 22 Arab states, how many are truly “viable and democratic” in the Western sense? Just one, and that one just barely – Tunisia.
In Gaza the Palestinians are ruled by Hamas, a ruthless terror group, that murders its political rivals, beginning with its killing of Fatah fighters in 2007. Just two Hamas leaders – Khaled Meshaal and Mousa ibn Marzouk – have amassed fortunes of $2.5 billion apiece – and decamped, the first to Doha, Qatar, and the second to New Cairo, Egypt.
In the West Bank (Judea & Samaria), the PA is ruled by Mahmoud Abbas, who is now in the seventeenth year of his four-year term as President. With his two sons Tareq and Yasser, Abbas has accumulated $400 million, partly from monopolies on goods they control in the PA territories, but mainly from the foreign aid provided to the PA by foreign donors.
Can either Gaza or the PA be said to be “viable”? Both entities rely almost entirely on handouts, from the United States, the European Union, and Gulf Arab states. They are the international welfare queens, beneficiaries of foreign aid largesse that has created in the Palestinian population a culture of permanent dependency. Neither Gaza nor the PA-run territories in the West Bank are economically “viable,” and even if they were to be joined in a single state, that nation of “Palestine” would never become that “viable, democratic” state that Marine Le Pen so blithely imagines can be achieved.
“For the sake of consistency and because I believe it is right, politically, historically and morally, I will remain faithful to the official line of the Quai d’Orsay [the French foreign ministry], that is to say, France’s commitment to the two-state solution,” Le Pen said.
What is called “the two-state solution” is really a surrender to the salami tactics of the Slow Jihadists of the PA. The first step in their program is to squeeze Israel back within the 1949 armistice lines (called “the 1967 lines” by Le Pen), which were once described by Abba Eban as the “lines of Auschwitz.” Those 1949 armistice lines – which were never a recognized border – would again leave Israel with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea.
The Jewish state would also be stripped of the Jordan Valley, so necessary for control of the invasion routes from the east. And with Israel having been so shrunk in size, in order to achieve that “two-state solution” that Le Pen favors is achieved, then the Arabs can again go in for the kill, presumably with better results this time than in 1948, 1967, and 1973.
According to Le Pen, the French position represents “the only solution that can meet the national aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians.”
Hartmut says
Game is over, it’s Macron for another 5 years term.
Having listened to Le Pen during some of her recent interviews I began to wish for her defeat. While I can sympathize with her staunch anti-Muslim immigration stance the rest of her package is unfortunately utterly dismal and putting France as well as NATO and the continent at risk.
allanivarsson says
I am disappointed with Marine Le Pen, I thought she was better than that. Clearly, she cannot be trusted and is a two-faced shifter.
Proves my philosophy, which I taught my family for years, in work or play, “Trust is earned, not given.”
Linda Rivera says
Not every leader is who they appear to be. I was shocked to read today on a Hungarian news site that Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban’s first visit abroad was to the Vatican for a private audience with the Pope.
Remember that Orban made a public appeal to the Pope to stop the huge Muslim invasion into Europe.
The deception of world leaders is frightening.
https://dailynewshungary.com/government-would-not-exclude-introducing-sectoral-windfall-taxes/
Asked why Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s first official visit abroad had been to the Vatican instead of Poland, his usual first port of call after being reelected, PM chief of staff Gergely Gulyás said Orbán was honoured to be received for a private audience by Pope Francis.
Linda Rivera says
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban and his party have made Hungary an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS nation for CHRISTIANS and JEWS.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/1873/hungary-claims-to-be-upholding-christian-polity-and-defending-the-christian-identity-of-europe-but-is-it-
15 September 2021, The Tablet
Hungary claims to be upholding Christian polity and defending the Christian identity of Europe – but is it?
……….. Despite colourful rhetoric from Orbán about the danger non-Christian migrants pose to Europe’s Christian identity, he has proved very amenable to their importation….
According to data from KSH, Hungary’s Central Statistical Office, in 2017-18 alone Hungary welcomed the equivalent of approximately 1.5 per cent of its population in the form of immigrants from non-EU countries – principally the Far East. The overwhelming majority are of course non-Christian.
…….The resistance to accepting refugees stands in strange contrast with the Hungarian prime minister’s cultivation of close ties to Muslim governments in Central Asia (notably Azerbaijan) boasting dreadful records in the treatment of their Christian minorities – a subject on which the Hungarian government is conspicuously silent.
Budapest now hosts a school belonging to the Maarif Foundation and co-sponsored by the Hungarian and Turkish governments. It is dedicated to promoting “Universal Islamic Values” as interpreted by Turkish President Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP)….
Under Orbán’s premiership Hungary has become not only an observer member of the Turkic Council but the host and sponsor of its European Representation Office – at considerable public expense.
Hungary is the only Visegrad state not to acknowledge the 1915 Armenian Genocide – for fear of endangering good relations with Ankara.
Diplomatic relations with Armenia, the world’s oldest Christian state, were indeed severed a decade ago after Orbán (acting against advice from officials) returned convicted murderer and Azeri army captain Ramil Safarov to Baku for “humanitarian reasons”, where he was released, pardoned and promoted to Major by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilyan Aliev, immediately upon touchdown
Safarov had previously been convicted of the vicious killing and dismemberment in a frenzied axe attack of Armenian colleague Lt Gurgen Margaryan while both men were attending a NATO partnership training course in Budapest.
Members of the Fidesz leadership were subsequently found to have benefited significantly from questionable financial dealings with the Aliev regime. The Hungarian government’s strange behaviour in this affair elicited a rare venting of public dismay by Hungary’s church leaders – but by then the damage was done……….
BareNakedIslam says
Linda, what is wrong with taking in immigrants from the Far East? They are no threat to Christianity, and a lot of them are Christian.
Linda Rivera says
Absolutely nothing wrong if they’re NON-Muslims or Christians! Bonnie.
This is ALARMING:
ARTICLE: Budapest now hosts a school belonging to the Maarif Foundation and co-sponsored by the Hungarian and Turkish governments. It is dedicated to promoting “Universal Islamic Values” as interpreted by Turkish President Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP)….
Under Orbán’s premiership Hungary has become not only an observer member of the Turkic Council but the host and sponsor of its European Representation Office – at considerable public expense……..
Orbán (acting against advice from officials) returned convicted murderer and Azeri army captain Ramil Safarov to Baku for “humanitarian reasons”, where he was released, pardoned and promoted to Major by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilyan Aliev, immediately upon touchdown
Safarov had previously been convicted of the vicious killing and dismemberment in a frenzied axe attack of Armenian colleague Lt Gurgen Margaryan while both men were attending a NATO partnership training course in Budapest.
BareNakedIslam says
I have no idea why he did that.
Hartmut says
Orban, as well as Switzerland, also does NOT support Ukraine with any type of arms in it’s efforts to contain the Russian threat fwiw. This contradicts the other Visegrad countries such as Poland, Czech and Slovakian Republic.
BareNakedIslam says
Are they dependent on Russia for oil?
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Right on the most of the westworld is on the russian oil and America has just ordered 42% more russian oil but to tell europa that they must embargo the russian oil is pretty cheap. Biden gives oilreserves free but in the back he is importing russian oil and the whole bullshit about moral and so. Europe should kill itself for what bidens comerce..really now.
BareNakedIslam says
Very true. And while Trump was in office, we became energy independent and not only didn’t have to import oil/natural gas from anywhere, but were starting to export it to other countries.
allanivarsson says
Linda, thank you… well said.
underzog says
Maybe the Munich Massacre was a “mere detail,” also. Their picking some “vrai imbeciles en France cette jours.”
BLR says
with her rides the fate of France , be she an appeaser I am done with my hope for that country a long with millions of my kind who don’t like wasting time on has been ‘s who don’t want to be free french men , Israel can’t depend on them nor can I
Easterndmondbk says
I hate to see this BNI, France is in dire straights
BareNakedIslam says
So sad that Zemmour did not become the opponent to Macron.
Easterndmondbk says
My word it is! My pals in the UK. Ma’am they tell it’s lost. They tell France is gone, it’s an Islamic toilet. I pray none of that is true. A vid from my rumble channel.
Always good to chat BNI.
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BareNakedIslam says
Thanks, I subscribed to your Rumble account.
Easterndmondbk says
I’m honored, truly. I try to put something new up every two days.
BareNakedIslam says
Great.
GonadTheRuffian says
Bonnie, you should go to the Europe Reloaded site. They have a story that shows their may have been Dominion voting machine style cheating in the French elections. The method looks almost identical to what happened in the last American Predsidential Election in some states.
BareNakedIslam says
I leave election fraud reporting to others.
Linda Rivera says
Le Pen’s WICKED Two State Solution is Hitler’s Nazi Fascist-Islamic FINAL SOLUTION.
The Enemies of Israel and Jews are the ENEMIES of ALMIGHTY GOD, Pure, Holy and Absolutely Good who dwells in Unapproachable Light.
BIBLE, Psalm 83:1-5
1 O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
2
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
3
They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant……..
Linda Rivera says
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has declared that “Jerusalem MUST be the capital of two states – Israel and one that does not yet exist – Palestine.e
Le Pen:
REPENT of your Wicked OPPOSITION to the Righteous HOLY ONE, our Magnificent, Glorious, Wonderful, Precious Creator, the ONE TRUE God who gave Israel to Jews as an Everlasting Possession thousands of years before the BLOOD CONQUEST Cult of Islam was invented.
Repent or spend all of Eternity in Fiery Hell.
Cleavis W Nowell says
Marine Le Pen appears to have succumbed to Joseph Biden type senility. Sadly an easy win for Macon it appears.
BareNakedIslam says
No, she is not senile, she is trying to get some of the Muslim vote.
Classy Infidel says
Very naive of her to think she could attract the muslim vote. It will never happen. Because they all vote and their numbers are forever increasing, somewhere around 8% of total French voters, it will be almost impossible to win an election without the Muslim vote.
BareNakedIslam says
But there are still a lot more people who hate Muslims than there are Muslims. So she screwed herself.
Reader says
And my response to her is:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0c15320ac9dc078766a28efb47af8082fc0b622eb21e7c3ebe3367585776ffad.jpg
BareNakedIslam says
Reader, I’m moving that to the Main page. Thanks