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Le Pen Was a Notorious Holocaust Denier, an Ally of Israel's Enemies
(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on Jan. 7, 2025, was the catalyst for the rise of far-right parties in Europe. We must be very careful and vigilant before establishing relations with leaders of European far-right political parties who wish to establish friendly relations with Israeli parties. These European parties do not correspond with the American political chessboard. European politics, particularly French politics, goes back to the Dreyfus affair, to the end of colonialism, to Vichy France, and their relations with the Arab world and Iran. Europe's colonial history is at the origin of its frequent obsessions with trying to solve the problems of the Middle East. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.