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The New York Times believes that President Trump, who called for the crackdown on protesters and designated the far left as behind the spillovers, is "blowing on embers in these times of discord" in the United States. "Mr. Trump, the newspaper writes, presents himself as someone seeking conflict, not conciliation, as a fighter, not a peacemaker. And he lives up to this image in these perilous times. Faced with a nation on the brink, ravaged by disease, struck by economic collapse, divided on confinement and even on masks; in the face of a race-shaken nation once again, his first instinct was to look for someone to fight with. ”
The bellicose attitude of President Trump, candidate for his re-election in 2020, inspires a drawing by Brian Alcock, where he is seen crushing the nape of American democracy with his knee. And she said, like George Floyd before dying, failed to breathe. "It's a miracle! I told them that the virus would disappear when it warms up, "also makes cartoonist David Rowe tell Donald Trump, who shows him naked in front of his burning country, like Emperor Nero contemplating the fire of Rome. Two drawings found on Twitter.
Indignation also in Jerusalem after the death on Saturday of a 32-year-old autistic Palestinian, Eyad Hallaq, shot dead by the police when he, too, was disarmed. A blunder which fed "parallels with the racist American police violence", according to the French daily newspaper Liberation, which reports that a few hundred activists gathered in Jerusalem behind banners containing the African-American slogans: "Palestinian lives matter "," Palestinian lives matter ", or" Justice for George, Justice for Ryad ". Activists denounce a resurgence of police violence in East Jerusalem and a culture of impunity in the local police.
“Being black in the United States should not be punishable by death. What about being a Palestinian? ”Asked the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “In the United States, the police kill blacks, whose blood is inexpensive. In Israel, they shoot Palestinians, whose blood is even less expensive. ” The daily says that in the United States, the murders of African-Americans "start demonstrations", while in Israel, they "put the Israelis to sleep".
George Floyd and Ryad Hallaq were "both civilians, killed by police", "their tragic and scandalous deaths are part of a long history of violence", "but the similarities end there", says Israel Hayom - who judges "the attempt to draw parallels between Jerusalem and Minneapolis manipulative and irresponsible". "The shooting in Jerusalem, as horrific as it may be, ensures the Israeli gratuitousness, did not occur in a racial context, but in the context of a nationalist conflict, which unfortunately creates terror."
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