Frankrijk's ware gezicht wordt met de dag duidelijker ... De enige "historic mistake" die ik zie was de bevrijding van de Fransen uit handen van de nazi's.
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Former French PM: Israel's creation a "historic mistake"
Former French prime minister Michel Rocard said last week that the 1917 Balfour Declaration leading to the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state had been an "historic mistake."
Rocard, a member of the French Socialist Party who also serves in the European Parliament, told an audience at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, on June 16 that Israel was an "abnormal case in the world."
Referring to England's promise to create a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine, Rocard described the Israel state as a "unique and abnormal condition because it was created with a promise, and that millions of Jews gathered from all around the world, creating an entity that continues to pose a threat to its neighbors until today," the Palestinian International Press Center reported.
Rocard drew attention to the fact that Israel was historically created on a "racist basis," depending on armed conflict to set its borders. Rocard referred to the colonization of the Arab world, of which his country was involved in, as the main reason behind the current state of violence and conflict in the Middle East.
However, Rocard warned that delaying a peace agreement between the Arab states and Israel would "greatly increase violence in the region," pointing out that the long-demanded reforms in the Arab states stemmed from the inside, not imposed by outside forces, the Palestinian International Press Center reported.
"Peace must spring from a religious base ... all reforms can be made possible through the teachings of our divine religions. To pray to God is accepted, but violence is not," concluded Rocard.
Rocard, who served as prime minister of France between 1988 and 1991, is a front-running candidate for the presidency of the European Parliament, EUobserver.com reported last week.
Rocard: Sharon creating anti-Israelism
In April 2002, an open letter from Rocard, published in the daily Le Figaro, accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of "producing worldwide anti-Israelism."
Rocard wrote: "You are producing worldwide anti-Israelism, and people like me, who have fought anti-Semitism since they were very young, are powerless to hold back the torrent of anger and hatred to which you have opened the floodgates.
"You are waging a war that you cannot win. Each action by [the Israeli Army] creates a dozen new terrorists ... Well, there are 2 million Palestinians ... How many will you have to kill? Several hundred thousand? Half a million?" Rocard wrote.
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