The Élysée recalled that France remains Israel’s “unwavering friend” and condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s “excessive” comments. The Israeli leader said on Saturday evening that Emmanuel Macron should be “ashamed” for his comments on an arms embargo against Israel.
Strong diplomatic tensions between France and Israel, after Emmanuel Macron’s comments on an arms embargo against Israel. The French president raised the issue of weapons for the first time during an interview on France Inter radio, recorded on Monday and broadcast this Saturday, October 5. “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to carry out the fighting in Gaza,” he declared.
“France does not deliver any,” he immediately clarified, targeting the United States directly. “I think that those who supply (them) cannot call every day alongside us for a ceasefire and continue to supply them,” he then insisted during a press conference, at the end of the a summit of the Francophonie in Paris.
A “shame,” said Benjamin Netanyahu, in an address to the French president and other Westerners calling for arms embargoes against his country.
France “unwavering friend” of Israel
Faced with the anger of the Israeli Prime Minister, France remains Israel’s “unwavering friend”, we learned from the Élysée, which deplores the “excessive” words of Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The President of the Republic is in solidarity with the security of Israel and demonstrates it. France mobilized its military resources in the face of the Iranian attack on October 1, as it had already done on April 13 and 14,” adds the Presidency of the Republic.
“The President of the Republic personally told the Iranian president of France’s attachment to Israel’s security. He reiterated that France would not allow Iran or any of its proxies to attack to Israel and would always find us facing him if he resorted to force”, insists the Élysée.
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