Well done France for dealing with it correctly. By all means have a Pro Palestine rally anytime of the year, but if you do it right after a Hamas attack, you ARE consciously or subconsciously celebrating what happened.
@BritishFailedAesthetic I agree the shouts of "Free Palestine" in the aftermath were absolutely a celebration. They are practically ripping their faces off in anguish as Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, but when it comes to the Hamas attack you either get a tepid "I condemn" or "I condemn, but..."
I feel almost annoyed that I have to say that but I do have to say that.
Also, as others have noted, Macron's bam would be against the US First Amendment. What all of this amounts to is making it illegal to protest against a country that is about to commit genocide.
Like all the other Republicans, Trump is pro Israel and pro Netanyahu.
Trump privately calling for Netanyahu to be ‘impeached,’ asking aides if he should do so publicly — report
Former US president Donald Trump has privately been calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be “impeached” over the government’s failure to anticipate the weekend Hamas onslaught, Rolling Stone magazine reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
The stance has been advocated in calls Trump has held with several pro-Israel, Republican allies who have asked the former president and current GOP presidential frontrunner how he would handle the current Israel-Hamas war.
Trump has proposed cutting off all US humanitarian aid to the Palestinians (in both the West Bank and Gaza, as he did when he was president) and encouraging other countries to do the same as well as capturing and extraditing Hamas figures, Rolling Stone says.
In most of the conversations, though, Trump has focused on his distaste for Netanyahu, whom he has never forgiven for congratulating US President Joe Biden after he won the 2020 election.
Trump has expressed his desire for Netanyahu to be out of office by the time he hopes to be back in the White House in 2025, according to the report.
If he's turned on Bibi recently, it's incidental to his support for Israeli policy (and the right of Israeli policy). His beef there is personal and not in policy.
I need to go now. I will maybe continue this some other time.
🙂 There may not be easy answers because there aren't easy questions.
(I happen to agree with placing our embassy in the capital of a nation with which we have diplomatic relations with, a nation we have long considered to be a friend and ally. Trump only moved the embassy for political reasons and he was angered by the fact American Jews didn't flock to supporting him like blind sheep. And previous administrations didn't do so out of fear of angering oil-supplying Arab nations.)
There are places were it would be illegal to "silently pray."
You can't do so by trespassing onto private property, for example. Neither would you be permitted to do so by sitting in the middle of a highway or in the aisle of an airplane (go pray in your seat).
