After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed French President Emmanuel Macron was behind the “anti-Semitic fire” in France by proposing to grant Palestinian statehood, a diplomatic row erupted between Israel and Paris.
A letter from the AFP news agency on Tuesday that claimed anti-Semitism had “spewed” in France following President Macron’s recent declaration that he would recognize Palestine as a state at a meeting of the UN General Assembly next month contained Netanyahu’s accusation against the French leader.
On Tuesday, the French president’s office quickly retaliated against Netanyahu, calling his allegations “abject” and “erroneous” and promising that they “will not go unanswered.”
The French presidency stated that “this is a time for seriousness and responsibility, not conflation and manipulation,” adding that France “protects and will always protect its Jewish citizens.”
It stated that “violence against the]French] Jewish community is unacceptable.
The deputy minister for European affairs, Benjamin Haddad, said that France had “no lessons to learn” from Netanyahu’s letter.
Haddad claimed that the problem, “which is poisoning our European societies,” should not be “exploited.”
According to reports, France, which is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, has joined the 193 UN members who currently or intends to recognize a Palestinian state.
Encourages the Jew-hatred that is currently persecuting your streets.
Netanyahu wrote to Macron in a letter stating, “Your call for a Palestinian state adds more to this antisemitic fire.” It’s appeasement rather than diplomacy. It encourages the Jew-hatred that is currently persecuting your streets, encourages Hamas’s terror, and strengthens Hamas’s refusal to release the hostages.
Netanyahu and Macron’s diplomatic spat come as Netanyahu accused Israeli Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of being “a weak politician who abandoned Australia’s Jews and betrayed Israel.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister:
Albanese will be remembered as a weak politician in history.
who abandoned Australia’s Jews and betrayed Israel.
Simcha Rothman, an Israeli politician whose ultranationalist party makes up Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, was denied visa by the Albanese government on Monday.
Rothman was scheduled to speak at the Australian Jewish Association’s events.
Gideon Saar, Israel’s foreign minister, announced a few hours later that he had revoked Australia’s ambassador’s visas for the Palestinian Authority.
Saar added that I have given the Israeli Embassy in Canberra a thorough look at any official Australian visa applications for entry into Israel.
He said, “This comes in response to Australia’s decision to recognize a “palestinian state” and in response to Australia’s justified refusal to grant visas to a number of Israeli figures.
Penny Wong, the Australian government’s foreign affairs minister, called Israel’s decision to revoke diplomats’ visas an “unjustified response” and claimed that Netanyahu’s government was causing the country’s diplomatic isolation to worsen.
The Netanyahu government is isolating Israel and undermining international efforts for peace and a two-state solution, according to Wong in a statement.
Netanyahu was “in denial” about the humanitarian crisis brought on by Israel’s punishing war on Gaza, according to Albanese last week.
More than 700, 000 people in the war-ravaged territory have been forcibly displaced and re-displaced by Israeli forces, according to Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who reported on Tuesday that Israeli authorities had prohibited shelter items like tents from entering Gaza for about five months.
Because it thinks tent poles could be used for military purposes, Laerke claimed that Israel has classified tents as “dual use.”
Thameen Al-Kheetan, a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office, warned that the occupation of Gaza City by Israel was a potential humanitarian disaster.
Source: Aljazeera
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