"Palestinians have lost legitimacy"

[Solomon2]

Writer Houellebecq: Palestinians have lost legitimacy
Famed French writer Michel Houellebecq says the French Left is to blame for anti-Jewish tension in France.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 2/18/2016, 8:27 PM

Michel Houellebecq (Reuters)

Famed French writer Michel Houellebecq defended Israel in an interview he gave to the popular magazine Le Point, which devoted a journalistic project to the Jews of France.

According to news site Walla, Houellebecq – who is not Jewish – has identified as pro-Israeli for several years. He reconfirmed this position in the interview, and explained: "Israel is more moral than the Palestinians. At first I was neutral, but the Palestinian suicide bombings shocked me. Unlike the Israelis, who strike at pre-marked targets, the Palestinian attacks are blind, and that is much less moral. The end does not justify the means, and that is why the Palestinians have lost legitimacy in my eyes."

Houellebecq blamed the French Left for turning Israel into an enemy and inciting French Muslims against it. Intellectuals, journalists and radical leftist politicians, he said, are the ones responsible for the tension between the Muslim and Jewish communities in France.

"What connection is there between Muslims in France and the Palestinians?" he asked. "Why do the Muslims in France not raise a hue and cry about what is happening to their brothers in Africa and Asia, but only (do so) about their Palestinian brothers? It is only the fault of the radical Left's anti-Israeliness and its connection to Islam."

Asked why he is so popular in Israel, Houellebecq replied: "For the same reason I am popular in Germany: The Israelis love philosophical discussions, something they do not find in most French literature, but they do find it with me and they adore it."

Houellebecq's novel Soumission, which was published on the exact date of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, describes France in 2022, with a Muslim ruling the country according to Islamic law.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Israel's reason to claim 'Judea':
1 - It was the land of their ancestors [Genetics mostly debunked that]
2 - The Bible and Torah says so
3 - They are God's chosen people
4 - Palestinians are Arab foreigners [ Again genetics debunked that]

Palestinians are the descendants of the original tribes of Levant - Israelis are just invaders who conquered the area through bloodshed and destruction.

 

[Dubious]

Famed French writer Michel Houellebecq defended Israel in an interview he gave to the popular magazine Le Point, which devoted a journalistic project to the Jews of France.

Wonder why he isnt living his happily ever after in israeal?

identified as pro-Israeli for several years

Kind of explains the type he makes money off....So why the headlines?

 

[Solomon2]

Israel's reason to claim 'Judea' -

Have you ever read the terms of the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine?

Wonder why he isnt living his happily ever after in israeal?

It's ISRAEL. Why should he? He's not a Jew.

 

[Dubious]

Why should he? He's not a Jew.

as long as his pockets are full who wants to know or cares?

2ndly as long as they shine esp when some people have woken up and want israel to label the products they steal from the settlements area and mask as their own....

3rdly, as long as people like you are quoting him to make his articles get hits/ reads.....I dont think he gives 2 hoots what he talks about!

 

[Dubious]

You are the person who brought the subject up!

and I replied about who cares what he is or believes....only money matters....

1) His religion nor belief isnt in question nor targeted.
2) Israel needs to boost its image...
3) If he thinks israel is so dandy why not live there? - valid question , no?

In Pakistan waving the Indian flag at a sports event can get you ten years in jail. I suppose the thought of rooting for the Israelis would make you wet your pants: at this rate you could be prosecuted for the same crime, plus accused of abandoning Islam and your property seized by the state, right?

Typical of you incapable of sticking to the topic.

Come back the day you can write logical replies!

Pakistan

Islam

Why do you open posts about israel when you cant answer 1 word about them?

Prob is how they teach you....divert questions by throwing your own and derail the "discussion" which never started and pose as the victim of trying a "civilized debate"

Shall I TRANSLATE THAT to ground realities?

When asked about israel's ill crimes which it has been doing non stop even when it claims to have ceasefire, answer with HAMAS! Mind you all I hear is you dying from phobia and incapability of being called a grown up!

 

[Sipahi]

Israel is the one who is not legitimate.

 

[jammersat]

in the face of Israel's hypocricy everyone loses legitimacy , even some members here

illegitimate , period

 

[Hasbara Buster]

In the eyes of the world, Israel never had any legitimacy and never will.

 

[Archdemon]

In the eyes of the world, Israel never had any legitimacy and never will.

Funny, isnt it a bit pretentious to speak on behalf of the entire world?

 

[T-Rex]

Funny, isnt it a bit pretentious to speak on behalf of the entire world?

But it's okay for a zionazi to speak for the entire world, right?