On LCI, Lula sets the record straight on Gaza: a masterful lesson in human rights from southern

ByMuhammad

Invited Monday evening on LCI, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva offered French viewers much more than a simple interview. Faced with quick journalists to claim the posture of human rights defenders, Lula delivered a real lesson, calm but relentless, on Gaza, Palestine … and Western inconsistencies. Asked about the possibility for France to recognize a Palestinian state, Lula has not procrastinated. “It would be a political gesture of an extraordinary scale”he said, recalling that France is the homeland of the Revolution, Fraternity, Solidarity. “A country that cannot agree with the current genocide in Gaza. »»

When the journalist tries to qualify by recalling that Hamas controls Gaza, Lula reappears firmly : “I don’t know who holds Gaza. What I know is that there are more women and children killed than members of Hamas. »» Then he adds, with the severity of a leader who speaks in the name of an overall south often ignored: “It is not a war, it is a genocide. »» Everything without raising the tone, without a sleeve effect – simply by exposing facts that some prefer to go around.

While French journalists sometimes give lessons to the rest of the world in the name of human rights, it is a president from Brazil who, with calm, reminded them what they may have forgotten: the defense of human rights is not an empty slogan, even less an moral posture with variable geometry. It is an ethical commitment, which requires courage – including politics. In this sequence, Lula was not satisfied to answer. He spilled the roles: the professor was him.

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Muhammad

Muhammad is a visionary thinker and passionate writer who has been contributing to Understanding Islam for several years.