In an act of open sabotage, the French government this weekend deliberately, physically blocked Israeli defense companies from presenting their products this week at the Paris Air Show.
On Sunday night, just one day before the Paris Air Show opened in Le Bourget Airport, exhibition organizers acting on behalf of the French government ordered the removal of offensive weapons systems from Israeli defense industry pavilions.
The move breaks with standard practice at defense exhibitions worldwide.
Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) Director General, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram instructed his staff to inform organizers that Israel categorically rejected this demand.
In response, exhibition organizers erected a black wall around the Israeli exhibits to completely seal off the pavilions and block attendees from seeing the products.
The blockade also segregated the Israeli industry pavilions from the dozens of others belonging to Turkey, China and myriad others at the show.
“This unilateral action was carried out in the middle of the night after Israeli defense officials and companies had already finished setting up their displays,” Israel’s Defense Ministry spokesperson noted.
“This outrageous and unprecedented decision reeks of policy-driven and commercial considerations. This comes at a time when Israel is fighting a necessary and just war to eliminate the nuclear and ballistic threat facing the Middle East, Europe, and the entire world,” he pointed out.
“The French are hiding behind supposedly political considerations to exclude Israeli offensive weapons from an international exhibition – weapons that compete with French industries. This is particularly striking given Israeli technologies’ impressive and precise performance in Iran,” the ministry spokesperson added.
Israel’s Defense Ministry has called on the French government and exhibition organizers to reverse “this ugly and improper action,” remove the black segregation walls from the Israeli pavilions, and allow Israeli industries to display their systems like all other participants in the exhibition.
France has long expressed preference for Israel’s enemies, most recently Iranian proxies surrounding the Jewish State such those in Gaza — Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Popular Resistance Committees — as well as the Palestinian Authority government that continues to incite its population against Israel and openly pays those who attempt terror attacks against their Israeli neighbors.
This latest act of hostility against the State of Israel by the government of President Emmanuel Macron finally lays bare France’s apparent support for the genocidal aspirations of Iran and its radical Islamist “axis of evil” as the Jewish States fights an existential war for its survival, evoking memories of 1938 Europe.
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