From Ma’an. The French National Front is far right, and has neo-Nazi friends. Now who is delegitimizing Israel?
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor attended a luncheon for France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen “by accident,” his spokeswoman told AFP on Thursday.
Prosor attended the event in honor of the far-right leader at the United Nations in New York. It was Le Pen’s first meeting with an Israeli official.
Prosor’s spokeswoman Karean Peretz told AFP that the ambassador’s attendance was the result of a misunderstanding. She did not elaborate.
The French newspaper Le Monde reported that Prosor told reporters before entering the event: “I am a free man.” After the meeting, he told reporters: “We value diversity of opinions.”
An accident in his unmentionables I reckon:
“Le Pen herself was quoted by French news agencies on Saturday, saying that the Israeli ambassador’s presence at the event “was not an error.” According to Le Pen, “Please, no one actually imagines that the ambassador burst through the wrong door.”
“The National Front leader added, “It is impossible to converse with Marine Le Pen for 20 minutes without knowing who she is.” According to Le Pen, “There was nothing unclear or ambiguous about our meeting.”
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-un-ambassador-attends-le-pen-meeting-by-mistake-1.393919
This was only a matter of time. Europe’s new hard right has long idolized Israel.
In fact, even hardliner Lieberman reprimanded one of his underlings for meeting with people who had neo-nazi connections, because they espouse a ‘pro-Israel’ bent.
Now, to be fair, Marine is turning sharply away from her father’s anti-Semitic legacy. She has been outright pandering to Jews. She’s instead focusing on what every anti-immigrant party in Europe does: the ‘creeping threat’ of Islam, and adding to that a strong, even ultra, convinction of Zionism.
If they keep at it long enough, some Jews, sadly, are going to buy it. Here’s the Israeli media on the previous such attempt by the Israeli gov’t:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4094299,00.html
something about birds of a feather flying together?
I’d like Mooser here to visualise the accident by which the Israeli ambassador arrived at Le Pens meeting. Please.
It takes one to know one.