One of the spokesmen for the Republicans in France (RIF) group was a guest on the
France TV station, where he dutifully proceeded to tear apart the preconceived ideas that the French élites and media all French people.
As Philippe Karsenty later said,
What I say about Israel, the U.S., Hamas, Villepin and so many other subjects, you will not hear it anywhere else. Maybe I will not be invited back on the sets after this but at least it will have been said once on French TV.
Notice notably at around 33:00 when his female neighbor, Laurence Haïm, says that Trump
wants "to deport" the illegal aliens. Karsenty springs immediately into
action, saying that while the verb indeed chosen by Trump himself may not mean anything
to Americans, in France the context is to the expulsion of the Jews in the 1940s to German death camps, and thus yet another weasel attempt to portray Trump as a Nazi or a fascist (a demonization which is the reason for the former president being the subject of two murder attempts). In French, therefore, we should use the verb "to expulse". To which USA expert André Kaspi agrees.
Ce que j'y dis sur Israël, les USA, le Hamas, Villepin et tant d'autres, vous ne l'entendrez nulle part ailleurs. Peut-être ne serai-je plus invité sur les plateaux après cela mais au moins cela aura été dit une fois à la télé française.
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