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It is sometimes surprising to see the intensity with which intellectuals on the banks of the Seine deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in dozens of articles and essays, most of which are totally unknown to the Israeli public. “The topic of Israel was always important in France, but in the last ten years, it has become the number-one subject for intellectual debate,” said Dr. Denis Charbit of the Open University, a researcher of French culture, who organized the conference.
Eric Marty, an essayist and lecturer on contemporary literature at the University of Paris, argued that Israel is a unique obsession in French intellectual discourse - to the point that the Israeli-Palestinian question has created conflict among several leading French thinkers. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985450.html