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Once seduced by the virile and “start-up nation” side of the Israeli leader, the French head of state no longer minces his words towards the policy that Netanyahu has been leading since October 7, which is good for him. The summons on Tuesday, November 12 to the Quai d'Orsay of the Israeli ambassador did not help matters.
“Unacceptable.” It is with these words that the Quai d'Orsay reprimanded the Israeli ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, on Tuesday, November 12. He was summoned after the arrest on November 7 of two French gendarmes by Israeli police officers in the grounds of the Eléona national domain, owned by France since the 19th century, located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. East. Events judged “unacceptable”, therefore details the press release with a few lines, “a fortiori between two countries which maintain a strong bilateral relationship”, while the same day, the visit to Israel by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, aimed “to de-escalate tensions”. “Measures will be put in place to ensure that such acts do not happen again,” concludes the ministry, concisely.
The sequence of the French gendarme repeating “Don’t touch me, don’t touch me!” to Israeli officers, which has been circulating on social networks, has finished burying an already very bad Franco-Israeli relationship
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