After a period of assuming the presidency of France, the late President Jacques Chirac visited occupied Palestine and met with Zionist officials.
After that, he visited the United States and held a press conference.
A journalist asked him about the visit, and Chirac said: I have been working in politics for several decades. I was thinking that Israel was the 51st state of the USA, but after these two visits, I discovered that the United States is nothing more than a province ruled by Israel.