NARRATIVE – The announcement of the French president sparked a tsunami of criticism in Israel, while the Palestinians applauded the initiative.
Emmanuel Macron was entitled to a real volley of green wood very far away in his form of the us and customs of diplomacy on Friday. The Israeli leaders have, in fact, gave themselves an overbidding of more acerbic criticism than the other, after the announcement by the French president of his intention to recognize the state of Palestine in September on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. Benyamin Netanyahu considered that such an initiative “Constitutes a reward offered to terrorism and creates the risk of seeing the appearance of a new ally of Iran, as had become the Gaza Strip” controlled by Hamas. “The Palestinians do not want a state next to Israel, but a state in the place of Israel”argued the head of government.
Even more pugnacious, Israel Katz, the Minister of Defense, described the decision to “Shame that will encourage the assassins and rapists of Hamas who have engaged in the worst massacre since the Holocaust”