Georges-Louis Bouchez, Belgian Member of Parliament and President of the “Mouvement R\u00e9formateur” political party (MR, liberal-conservative party), has been under fire for several days following his shocking comments in an interview: “I think this attack is rather a stroke of genius”, said Georges-Louis Bouchez, referring to Israel’s attack on Hezbollah members’ beepers.<\/p>\n\n
The MR Chairman may be forgetting that four civilians were killed in the attack, and that the Geneva Conventions prohibit the targeting of civilians.<\/p>\n\n
These statements sparked outrage among some of the political class. “Killing civilians, including children, terrorizing a population that has already suffered, we call that genius at the MR. But what horror. What a disgrace. Where is your moral compass, Mr Bouchez?” said Rajae Maouane, MP and former co-president of Ecolo. Brussels MP Jamal Ikazban (PS) accused the MR president of “apologizing for war crimes”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Georges-Louis Bouchez, Belgian Member of Parliament and President of the “Mouvement R\u00e9formateur” political party (MR, liberal-conservative party), has been under fire for several days following his shocking comments in an interview: “I think this attack is rather a stroke of genius”, said Georges-Louis Bouchez, referring to Israel’s attack on Hezbollah members’ beepers. The MR Chairman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,118],"tags":[438,452,451],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belgium","category-news-en","tag-belgium","tag-mr-en","tag-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"\n