Posted on 07/08/24
| News Source: Times of Israel
In the wake of the far left’s strong showing in France’s parliamentary election yesterday, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman calls on French Jews to “to leave France and immigrate to the State of Israel,” adding that there is “no time” to lose.
No party won a majority in the second round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, in which all 577 seats of the National Assembly were in play. According to Le Monde, the left-wing New Popular Front alliance won 182 seats while the centrist Ensemble, backed by President Emmanuel Macron, won 168.
Following the election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the French far-left leader, promised “to recognize the State of Palestine.”
Mélenchon, says Liberman, “became famous with quite a few statements against Jews and the State of Israel. His party represents pure antisemitism and expresses a significant increase in hatred of Israel and antisemitism.”
Turning to the possibility of uniting against Netanyahu on the political right, Liberman says that there are currently no talks about places on a potential united slate although “everyone talks to everyone and there is a good atmosphere.”
Regarding the suspected killing of a Palestinian by a citizen who apparently caught an alleged terrorist alive after he participated in the Hamas-led invasion on October 7, Liberman laments what he terms the “theater of the absurd” and calls on the State Attorney’s Office to offer “an apology and release all the detainees.”