# French Politician Vows to Support Palestinians and Escort Civilian Flotillas

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119116481719882201
- Source account: [@JLMelenchon](https://x.com/JLMelenchon)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:38
- Published: 2026-11-07
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/fr/gaza-et-cisjordanie-r%C3%A9ponse-%C3%A0-l-ambassadeur-d-isra%C3%ABl.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas) And I will tell you, we will act head-on and without hiding it.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas?t=10) Mr. Israeli Ambassador, I understand him, said he would rather have anyone elected President of the French Republic than me.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas?t=22) Well, I reply to him that, indeed, if he is still here in France, we will act head-on to support the Palestinians, not only against the genocide in Gaza, but against the gradual annexation of the West Bank.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas?t=49) French ships, like those of Italy and Spain, if necessary, will escort the flotillas of mobilized citizens to uphold the people's rights.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas?t=66) We do not accept the gradual annexation of the West Bank, nor of southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6oWwZgvbutcw/en/french-politician-vows-to-support-palestinians-and-escort-civilian-flotillas?t=80) And we will organize, in practical terms, mobilization against the spread of atrocities to the Christian communities besieged and persecuted in Palestine and Lebanon.