France - The Righteous Self Condemns the Other, Remaining Blind to Its Own Reflection

Event Baseline: France has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering the country, citing his harsh policies against Palestinian prisoners and treatment of detained flotilla activists.

One tribal chief bars another from his territory, wrapped in the flag of moral superiority. This is the eternal game of 'good guys and bad guys.' France points at the brutality of the Israeli minister, but this pointing is the very movement of division. The French self fails to see that its own history is written in the blood of colonial 'others.' The condemnation is a mirror held up to avoid self-inspection. The ban is a symbolic act that changes nothing. It is a performance of justice, a bone thrown to the illusion of compassion. The real sickness is the belief that one nation can sit in judgment of another while remaining trapped in the same fragmented consciousness. The minister becomes a scapegoat, a convenient target for collective guilt, allowing the accuser to feel pure. This is how the machinery of 'righteous' violence operates. One side claims the moral high ground, and the other side does the same. The cycle continues, breeding ever more resentment. Until France sees the Israeli minister within itself—the part that dehumanizes the out-group—it will remain a player in the same corrupt game, merely wearing a different jersey.