People ‘don’t understand us at all about Ukraine when we remain silent about Gaza’: Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has told a meeting of European leaders in Albania that they should support Gaza – much like how they helped Ukraine.
“Most of humanity is watching us and sometimes they don’t really understand what we’re doing about Ukraine, but we must explain,” he said on Friday.
“They don’t understand us at all about Ukraine when we remain silent about Gaza. They tell us: ‘It is strange. You tell us that our life is at stake when territorial sovereignty is attacked, and you close your eyes when there is a massacre,'” Macron added.
“I don’t compare anything. I know the stories. But I really want to wake us up collectively about the coherence we must have on this.”
They also don't understand that the impunity Israel enjoys broke international law and gives Putin the confidence to keep going, especially now he has Trump to manipulate.
Europe created the conflicts in the Middle East and is still backing 'colonial projects' in the region. Much easier to help Ukraine instead of look inward to the monsters you created.
Israel’s escalation in attacks ‘coinciding with major world events’
As we’ve previously reported, seven European nations have issued a joint statement calling for an end to Israel’s military assault and blockade of Gaza. But according to Mohamad Elmasry, an associate professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, such criticism will not mean much unless it is followed by concrete acts.
“We’ve heard scathing critiques of Israel now for 19 and a half months, but unless … action is followed through on them, then these statements are pretty empty,” Elmasry said.
“There’s really only one entity that can stop all of this, and that’s the United States … so long as the United States is willing to lend its support to this Israeli genocide, then unfortunately, I think we’re going to get more genocide.”
He also noted that Israel’s escalation in attacks usually “coincide[s] with major world events like the ones that are happening now – the Trump visit to the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine talks – because [Israel] knows that the attacks on Palestinians will then be moved down on the international news agenda”.
Israel may also be “lashing out” because Trump “has bypassed and ignored Israel now on a number of occasions,” Elmasry argued, “whether it’s negotiating with the Houthis for them to stop attacking US ships, negotiating directly with Hamas for the release of the American Israeli captive recently, or Trump announcing that they’re going to lift US sanctions on Syria.”
