As Causeur's Ivan Rioufol asks Will Trump and Netanyahu make history? and as Dreuz's Guy Millière wonders whether France's largest media outlets will concede the grandeur of Donald Trump — calling the state leaders who recognized a Palestinian state "odious cretins" as well as "servile Dhimmis" — a trio of Paris-based members and/or allies of the GOP (French, American, French-American…) take on Emmanuel Macron's hardly believable reaction to the Trump peace deal.
Did you know that last Thursday (five days after Thousands of Demonstrators Marched Through Paris Demanding the Liberation of the Final Hostages Held by Hamas), France organized its own peace summit?! Among the countries invited to The Day After summit were five European nations (the big five: besides France — Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain) and five Middle Eastern countries (Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE), along with Turkey, Canada, and the EU. Guess which country, besides the United States, was not invited — i.e., to a peace summit involving "Palestine" and, uh… Israel? Oh, the answer would be, uh… Israel (!) — No antisemitism there (no anti-Americanism either), none at all! No Jews, no Yanks.
And guess why? Because the countries involved want to organize a multinational UN force in the region. Very nice and friendly and neutral, n'est-ce pas? Hardly: the reason is purely anti-Israeli, to prevent more Jewish colonies in the West Bank and to ensure that the the countries' aforementioned recognition of a Palestinian state is not jettisoned, but goes forward. And here — in pure drama queen fashion ("existential threat"!!) — the French president reveals the profound dangers lurking for the region: "The acceleration of the construction of [Jewish] settlements in the West Bank constitutes an existential threat to the State of Palestine." The epitome of neutrality and objectivity, n'est-ce pas? (Merci pour l'Instalien, Sarah.)
To echo Dennis Prager, there are 22 Arab countries in the Middle East, and there between 50 and 60 Muslim countries in the world, but the planet's lone Jewish state — the size of New Jersey, smaller than Sicily or Jutland — must not be allowed to remain its (tiny) size but must be sub-divided.
Over at Valeurs Actuelles, Nicolas Conquer writes that While Trump Is Peace-Building, Macron Is Cosplaying. When Paris
brought together European and Arab ministers this Thursday to "rethink" the American peace plan—without even inviting Israel (!)—Donald Trump, for his part, brought the negotiations to a successful conclusion in Cairo. The result: France spoke, America acted. And this symbolic agitation came at a price: three wasted months, three months of tragedy, three more months of hostages and human lives lost. Our diplomacy claims to "re-enchant" the world, but it only prolongs its misfortunes.
… [Trump's] detractors denounced an unpredictable president; they discovered a methodical strategist. Far from a list of caricatures, Trumpian diplomacy follows a clear line: using the balance of power not to dominate, but to create the conditions for peace. Where so many leaders procrastinate, Donald Trump is committing his own political capital, at the risk of unpopularity, including among his base. This consistency, even more than his style, is redefining the United States' place in the world today. He addresses the powers in the only language they respect: that of firmness. The trade war was not an end in itself, but a lever. While Biden apologizes [as does/did, (in)famously, Obama], Trump takes responsibility. While Macron moralizes, Trump concludes.
… Our president seeks the stage, Trump seeks the result. One of them multiplies the symbolic gestures, the other the signatures of peace. One of them is hoping for a virtue signalling prize, the other deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Over at Causeur, Philippe Karsenty points out that Emmanuel Macron is doing everything in his power to prevent Trump from achieving a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas. Indeed, the spokesman for the Comité Trump France points out that the French president doesn't like any Jews, whether in France or in Israel — and, as it happens (although it may seem counterintuitive), he does not like any Arabs either, whether in France or in Gaza. Hence his title:
Emmanuel Macron n’aime ni les juifs, ni les arabes, que ce soit en France, en Israël ou à Gaza What peace summit, given that Trump's is underway and on track to end the fighting? To waste time and to prolong the war and the ordeal of the Gaza hostages?
It should be noted in passing that those who have been vigorously calling for a ceasefire for two years—and who had it within reach a second time with Trump's September 29 plan—seem less eager to see it come to fruition… especially if it leads to the disappearance of Hamas and its jihadist allies.
Several questions then arise.
Faced with his repeated failures on all domestic fronts—from his failed dissolution to the successive prime ministers he has being consuming—have the Israelis and Gazans become the cannon fodder needed to sustain internationally a president who is completely discredited in France? Should his nihilistic handling of French domestic policy serve as a model for the Middle East? Or is Emmanuel Macron reviving good ol' medieval practices: is the Jew the scapegoat intended to divert attention from his many failures?
What Karsenty says about the French politician's outlook on Jews and Arabs, I have often said the same about leftists, American as well as foreign: in the final analysis, they don't really care about Arabs, and blacks, and women, and gays, and transgenders, etc, etc, etc; the latter are simply victims — or weapons, if you will — to be used to shame regular citizens ("normies") in their incessant virtue signalling.
Indeed, in an interview about his new book (more about that in a few days) that starts out with a quote from Bastiat,
Sébastien Laye says that all the "completely discredited" French president's hyper-activism with regards to international affairs is based upon the simple (and sordid) fact of his impopularity among the French people, given that
Macron has ruined France.
