Tag: Emmanuel Macron
French election illustrates the poor choices facing European Jews
As far as most French Jews are concerned, they don’t have much of a choice in this week’s second round of their country’s presidential elections. Given that the alternative is Marine Le Pen of...
France to pull out forces out of Mali after nearly a decade
France announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali on Thursday after nearly a decade-long deployment to the country to fight radical Islamic terrorist groups.
“We cannot remain militarily engaged alongside de facto authorities...
Lapid and Macron talk about return to Iran deal, among other pressing topics
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid talked with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday evening, specifically discussing the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna surrounding a possible return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, according to...
Iran, spyware-abuse topics of Bennett-Macron meeting at climate summit
Iran’s race to to enrich uranium was among the key topics discussed on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and French President Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting between the two leaders on the...
New museum dedicated to falsely accused Capt. Alfred Dreyfus opens in France
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated on Tuesday the first permanent museum dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army who was wrongly convicted because of anti-Semitism, reported France’s RFI.
The Maison Zola-Musée Dreyfus museum in...
Selling spyware is immoral, but selling weapons isn’t?
French President Emmanuel Macron scolded Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett following a report that Moroccan intelligence services had used Israeli tech firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to keep tabs on him and other senior...
Israel tells France it is investigating NSO spyware allegations
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told his French counterpart Florence Parly in Paris on Wednesday that Israel was looking into allegations that spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used against French President...
In talks with Netanyahu, Biden urges ceasefire, reiterates support for Israel’s right to self-defense
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday updated U.S. President Joe Biden on the progress of Israel’s ongoing military operation against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, which the military says have launched more...
France’s justice minister aims to change law after court ruling on Halimi murder
France’s Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti plans to introduce a bill to change French law after a court ruled that the 27-year-old man who killed Jewish woman Sarah Halimi in a 2017 anti-Semitic attack would...
France’s Insanity Defense Is Itself Insane
To paraphrase our insanity defense standard, a suspect who cannot distinguish between right and wrong in killing his Jewish neighbor is not guilty of committing a crime.
France’s version of our Supreme Court moved close...