Alwaght- After hesitations reportedly over cost and security,
Israeli regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally decided to attend
the “solidarity” march in Paris on Sunday, ostensibly in support of “free
expression” and other “Western values.
The march had been called in the wake of the attacks in Paris last
week in which two gunmen murdered twelve people at the offices of the magazine
Charlie Hebdo, and a third murdered four people at a Jewish grocery store.
Netanyahu evidently could not resist the publicity given that it is
election season in Israeli regime, and he would not want to risk being upstaged
by political rivals who had announced their attendance, including such violent
racists as foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and economy minister Naftali
Bennett.
Israeli media are reporting that Netanyahu gatecrashed the march,
defying a request from French President François Hollande that he stays away.
Many people circulated images like the one above of world leaders
linking arms with Netanyahu, noting the perverse irony of a march for such
things as “freedom” and against “terrorism” being led by such figures,
including the man who ordered the bloodbath in Gaza last summer.
As people in the Gaza ghetto continue to die of cold as a direct
consequence of the destruction and ongoing siege, one observer in Gaza, Dima
Eleiwa, had a wry explanation for why the leaders embracing Netanyahu have kept
silent about their ordeal:
We’re not French enough.
Gaza writer Ayah Bashir asked poignantly:
We are dying literally in this prison! We are freezing!I haven’t
seen electricity all day! Why do we have to endure all this suffering?
While Netanyahu was certainly playing to a domestic audience, his
presence in Paris is also part of Israeli regime’s swift move to capitalize on
the horror in France on a number of fronts: to attack the Palestinians, to
sharpen the dangerous discourse of a “war of civilizations” and to speed up the
population transfer of Jews from Europe.
Source: Global Research
