After continuing to emphasize “Israel’s right to defend itself,” French President Emmanuel Macron recently issued a statement in which he acknowledged Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians and the necessity of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. How did social media activists read this statement?
In an interview with the BBC last Saturday, Macron said, “We share Israel’s pain and we share its desire to get rid of terrorism. But there are civilians being bombed. These children, these women, and these elderly people are being bombed and killed, and there is no justification or any legitimacy for that.” “There must be a ceasefire.”
This statement angered the Israelis, as their Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, quickly responded, saying, “The French president made a grave mistake.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant went further than Netanyahu and said, “Where does this audacity come from to preach morality to us during war?”
New concept of the game
The comments of social media activists varied regarding Macron’s statement, and the episode (11/13/2023) of the “Shabakat” program monitored some of them.
Lama believed that Macron’s statements are “evidence that the Western world is gradually moving towards disavowing Israel’s crimes, which will drown them all if they do not stop to condemn from time to time.”
Muhammad al-Sayyid followed in the same vein, saying in his comment, “Over time, Israel will gradually lose support, then friends will abandon it, then disagreements will kill them, then escape and disappear.”
As for “Ahmed,” he questioned Macron’s statements, as he wrote, “A chapter from the new play and its title is: With you, on them, with them for you.” He added, “This demonstrates a new concept of the game. When negotiations take place, Macron attacks them alongside Palestine, to be an eye for the entity in the guise of defending the cause.”
“Rawan” interpreted Macron’s statements as saying that they may constitute an obstacle in French and Israeli relations, “because Israel currently measures the world according to who aligns with it, and any attempt to condemn it, even from afar, is prohibited.”
It should be noted that the Israeli presidency announced, a few days after that statement, that Macron called his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, and told him, “I did not accuse Israel of intentionally harming civilians in Gaza. We unequivocally support Israel’s right and duty to defend itself.”
In an attempt to mitigate the statement of the Israeli presidency, the Elysee Palace announced that Macron affirmed in the phone call “Israel’s right to defend itself and that this battle must be conducted in accordance with international humanitarian law and taking into account the protection of the civilian population.”
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2023-11-13 16:34:46
