Gérard Larcher “stunned” by Emmanuel Macron’s words

A little sentence that continues to cause controversy. Two days after the publication in the press of remarks allegedly made by Emmanuel Macron on the subject of Israel, it is the turn of Gérard Larcher to criticize the head of state. This Thursday, the President of the Senate said “stunned” remarks by the president, denouncing a “ignorance of history” of the latter who had affirmed that Benyamin Netanyahu should not “not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN”. A reference to Resolution 181 adopted in November 1947 by the United Nations General Assembly, providing for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. “It is first of all a misunderstanding of the history of the birth of the State of Israel (…) To doubt the existence of Israel touches for me on fundamental questions”launched the third character of the State on Europe 1 and CNews.

Ensuring not “suspect nothing” the president, Gérard Larcher, has a second time questioned Emmanuel Macron’s historical knowledge: “Did he remember the Balfour Declaration? Is he aware of what happened during the Shoah? he got carried away, affirming that there was “like a doubt” on the fact that Emmanuel Macron could question the legitimacy of the existence of the Hebrew State. “I don’t suspect him of anything, I say that Israel’s right to exist is neither debatable nor negotiable”he added again. hammering that “Israel’s right to exist is neither debatable nor negotiable”the 75-year-old senator however urged Tel Aviv to “respect” the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), targeted several times by the Israeli army in recent days.