Emmanuel Macron denounced on Thursday afternoon, October 17 “lack of professionalism” Ministers, journalists and “commentators”accusing them of “distorted words” on Israel, which gave rise to a heated controversy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I think I have said enough about the situation in the Middle East without needing a ventriloquist.”denounced the French president in Brussels, in relation to his comments disclosed during a council of ministers in Paris.
“There are councils of ministers every week, of which the press is informed by the Government spokesperson and through a press release”declared the Head of State in the introduction of a press conference after the European Council. “Otherwisecontinuous, It is up to each of the participants in this council to be respectful of the rules and their functions for ethics, for personal discipline, to not circulate false, truncated or taken out of context information.”
“Words reported truncated and transformed”
Participants in Tuesday’s council of ministers claimed that Macron had declared that Benjamin Netanyahu should not “Do not forget that your country was created by a UN decision” and would have indirectly invited the Israeli Prime Minister not to “free yourself from UN decisions”. “It is also up to journalists and commentators to treat truncated and transformed words with the necessary precautions” judged the President of the Republic, without specifying what exactly he would have expressed during the Council of Ministers.
“I was stunned to read so many comments, comments of comments, reactions, even from foreign or French political leaders, to the comments I made, without wondering what they said and what exactly I would have said”Mr. Macron was outraged by whom “All of this is basically evidence of a disintegration of public debate and a lack of professionalism on the part of ministers who repeated distorted comments, journalists who repeated them and commentators who did not focus on the reality and veracity of such comments.
