France conveniently forgot that they already ruled the settlements constitutional in 2013. A French court ruling said that to protect Alstom the French train company that was contracted for the Jerusalem light rail.
The PA filed a lawsuit against two French companies that were contracted for construction of the light rail line in Jerusalem. This light rail system crosses through areas the Palestinians dream will be part of their capital city in their future state.
In 2013 the French Court of Appeals in Versailles ruled that, contrary to Palestinian arguments, Jewish settlements don’t violate the Geneva Conventions’ prohibition against an occupying power transferring ‘its civilian population into the territory it occupies.’ The law, the court held, bars government efforts to transfer populations. But it doesn’t bar private individuals settling in the disputed territories” as quoted by the Wall Street Journal in a Wednesday editorial.
The Wall Street Journal wrote; “The conference was a failure, but the conferees could have helped themselves by first checking what French courts have to say about those settlements before scoring Israel again”… (That ruling,) “matters because the Paris conference adopted the premise that settlements are illegal as a matter of settled law and the primary obstacle to peace. The French court makes nonsense of that judgment simply by looking at what the Geneva Conventions say, rather than basing its judgment on a legally meaningless ‘international consensus.’”
But let’s not forget that there is a good chance France would recall a court decision from just three years ago if they would be honest with themselves. But that might be too much to ask of the French. Why are they worse than the countries that supported the infamous UN Security Council Resolution? Asking them to remember their own law would be holding them to a double standard something that no nation should ever do to another… except to Israel.
This week’s Torah portion discusses how Pharaoh conveniently forgot who Joseph was, though Joseph was responsible for leading Egypt from famine to become a world power. France conveniently forgot their own law in order to harm Israel, but they can still change their mind. The same G-d that punished Egypt is waiting in the wings to see the world turn around and make the right choices when they still can.
The path to self-destruction is clear. Sit back and do nothing about global terror and genocide while on the other hand castigating Israel and trying to make it apologize for existing. The choice is France’s along with the rest of the free world to decide.
