Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday criticized French President Emmanuel Macron after the latter insulted Israel by suggesting it would not exist without the United Nations.
France, Lebanon's former colonial power, has called for a ceasefire in Lebanon in recent weeks as Israel continues its advance against the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, France has also called for an arms embargo on Israel and an end to the war with Hamas in Gaza. In response, Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel would win regardless, but France would remain ashamed.
On Tuesday, President Macron insisted that Israel should respect the United Nations despite its pronounced anti-Israel bias. His reason was that Israel did not exist except for the United Nations.
As the European version of Politico reported:
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to “ignore decisions of the United Nations” during his weekly meeting with his cabinet on Tuesday, the report said. French media reports confirmed by conference participants.
“Mr. Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a UN decision,” he reportedly said, referring to the UN General Assembly resolution. November 1947 vote It ended the British Mandate of Palestine and divided the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
Prime Minister Netanyahu responded in a statement:
Reminder to the President of France: It was not a United Nations decision that established the State of Israel, but a victory achieved with the blood of heroic fighters in the War of Independence, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including during the Vichy regime. . In France.
It is also worth remembering that in recent decades the United Nations has approved hundreds of anti-Semitic decisions against the state of Israel. Its purpose was to deny the only Jewish state the right to exist and the ability to defend itself.
In a separate statement reporting conversations with Macron earlier in the day, Netanyahu said the French leader continued to push for an arms embargo and convened a “peace conference” in Paris to discuss the Lebanese war involving South Africa and South Africa. criticized what he had done. Two people who harshly criticize Algeria and Israel.
he said:
The Prime Minister informed President Macron that he opposes a unilateral ceasefire that would leave Lebanon's security situation unchanged and return Lebanon to its previous state. He stressed that Israel is carrying out operations against the terrorist organization Hezbollah in order to prevent threats to Israeli citizens on its northern border and allow them to return home safely.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel will not agree to a deal that does not provide for this and prevent Hezbollah from rearming and reorganizing.
The prime minister also said he was surprised by President Macron's intention to host a conference on the Lebanon issue in Paris, involving countries such as South Africa and Algeria, which are working to deny Israel's fundamental right to self-defense, effectively denying its right to exist. It is rejecting that.
France supplied arms to Israel for the first two decades of its founding, but ended arms sales to Israel in the late 1960s as part of its shift to appeasement of Arab countries, and France has maintained that stance ever since. There is. Many Jews have fled France in recent decades due to growing anti-Semitism linked to Islamic extremism.
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