“The ministry strongly condemns the unjustified attack and offensive remarks made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son against President Emmanuel Macron,“ the Ramallah-based ministry said in a statement.
Macron, in an interview with France 5 broadcast on Wednesday, said that France could take the step during a United Nations conference in New York in June, adding he hoped it would trigger a reciprocal recognition of Israel by Arab countries.
“I will do it because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to participate in a collective dynamic, which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognise Israel in turn, which many of them do not do.”
But formal recognition by Paris of a Palestinian state would mark a major policy switch and risk antagonising Israel, which insists such moves by foreign states are premature.
“Screw you!” Yair Netanyahu wrote in English on X late on Saturday, while his father Benjamin Netanyahu himself dismissed Macron’s remarks.
“President Macron is gravely mistaken in continuing to promote the idea of a Palestinian state in the heart of our land -- a state whose sole aspiration is the destruction of Israel,“ Netanyahu said in a statement.
In Tel Aviv, teacher Nurit Sperling told AFP in French that Macron “absolutely shouldn’t have done that”.
“I think we saw on October 7 that it’s not feasible. We can’t live like this, next to them, in this way.”
He described Netanyahu’s comparison between France’s overseas departments and the Palestinian territories as “incorrect and factually flawed”, noting that residents of the former are French citizens with the same rights as those living in mainland France.
Relations between Israel and France have deteriorated in recent months.
Nearly 150 countries recognise a Palestinian state, recent being Ireland, Norway, Spain, and Slovenia who announced recognition last year.
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