Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a sign of historical ignorance and disrespect that French President Emmanuel Macron said that Israel was created by UN decree and that the Jewish state emerged as a result of the Arab-Israeli war. .
The Parisien newspaper reported this week that Macron, after summoning Israel’s ambassador in Paris to the Foreign Ministry in a closed-door ministerial meeting, said Netanyahu “must not forget that his country was created by a UN decree.” “.
“This is a sign of historical ignorance and lack of respect. The UN recognized the right of the Jewish people to a state, but certainly did not create one. The Jewish people have been linked to the land of Israel for 3,500 years. The modern State of Israel was created thanks to the sacrifice of the brave combatants of its war of independence – many of them survivors of the Holocaust and the (French) Vichy regime – who were able to resist the onslaught of five united Arab States that did not ” “I will not accept the UN plan to divide Mandatory Palestine.” – Netanyahu said in an interview with the French newspaper Figaro.
He added that the UN was not involved in the war and called it a “depressing distortion of history” to say that the organization “created the State of Israel.”
Netanyahu also described as “shameful” Macron’s call for an international embargo against Israel in relation to the weapons it uses in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, RIA Novosti clarifies.
