Tensions between Israel and France escalated over the weekend after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son, Yair Netanyahu, launched a verbal assault on French President Emmanuel Macron for advocating recognition of a Palestinian state.
Yair Netanyahu took to social media late Saturday to reply to Macron’s remarks, posting a message on X that learn, “Screw you!”
He adopted with a name for the independence of assorted French territories, together with Corsica, French Polynesia, and New Caledonia. In the identical submit, he additionally appeared to confuse French Guiana with West Africa whereas condemning what he described as France’s “neo-imperialism.”
The backlash got here after President Macron reiterated France’s place on the Israeli-Palestinian battle in a submit that said: “Yes to peace. Yes to Israel’s security. Yes to a Palestinian state without Hamas.”
His feedback adopted a televised interview on France 5, the place he mentioned France may transfer to acknowledge Palestinian statehood “in the coming months,” probably throughout a United Nations convention in June.
Macron emphasised the transfer may immediate reciprocal recognition of Israel by Arab nations. “We must move toward recognition, and we will do so … to participate in a collective dynamic,” he mentioned.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Netanyahu echoed his son’s criticism and rejected Macron’s place.
“President Macron is gravely mistaken in continuing to promote the idea of a Palestinian state in the heart of our land – a state whose sole aspiration is the destruction of Israel,” Netanyahu mentioned in a press release.
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