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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/will-france-recognize-the-injustices-against-jews-and-israel/
Will France Recognize the Injustices Against Jews and Israel?
(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - It was in Paris, during the ignoble trial against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, that Theodor Herzl realized the urgency of the Zionist movement and published The Jewish State. The history of the Jews is part of the national history of France. Jews inhabited France several centuries before the Franks and the Normans, dating back to the 1st century. Since then, they have integrated and contributed in all areas to the development of the country, always faithful to republican laws, devoted to their homeland. By definitively rehabilitating Brig.-Gen. Alfred Dreyfus, restoring to him his dignity as a soldier and officer, the French Republic and army have finally regained their honor. As a Francophile Israeli, I wish to see again the France of the Enlightenment, of human rights and universal values, the France of Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, Zola, Mendes France, Cassin, Blum and Bloch, and a long list of sincere and loyal friends of Israel. 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.