“A reminder to the President of France”: Emmanuel Macron’s comments on the creation of the State of Israel provoke Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction

While Israel is carrying out a ground offensive in Lebanon, a sentence from Emmanuel Macron made its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu react.

At the conclusion of the council of ministers on Tuesday, October 15, Emmanuel Macron declared, according to information of the Parisian, what “Mr.Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN, therefore he should not free himself from the decisions of the UN.” The remarks were reportedly confirmed by several participants.

A phrase that refers to the plan to divide Palestine between a Jewish state and an Arab state, adopted by a vote of the United Nations General Assembly in 1947.

“A reminder to the President of France”

This sentence declared by Emmanuel Macron did not fail to make the Israeli Prime Minister react. In a statement, Benjamin Netanyahu said: “A reminder to the President of France: it was not the UN resolution that established the State of Israel, but rather the victory achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of heroic fighters, many of whom were survivors of the Holocaust – notably of the Vichy regime in France”

In France, the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), Yonathan Arfi, reacted in a long message posted on X, in which he declared that “the remarks attributed to the President of the Republic, if confirmed, are both a historical and political mistake.”

These exchanges take place in a context of tension between the UN and Israel. The Jewish state is currently leading an offensive in southern Lebanon where UNIFIL, UN forces, including 563 French nationals, are deployed.