wrote in his letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas\u2019s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Macron and Netanyahu have long had a turbulent relationship that has become more tense with Macron\u2019s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood, and amid a rise in antisemitic offenses in France since Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack.<\/p>\n
In his letter, Macron rebuffed Netanyahu\u2019s claims that recognizing Palestinian statehood would undermine Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur determination to ensure that the Palestinian people have a State is rooted in our belief that a lasting peace is essential to the State of Israel\u2019s security,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
A diplomatic row also erupted this week between France and the United States when the U.S. ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, the father of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, also accused Macron of insufficient action against antisemitism. France described these allegations as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a letter made public earlier this month, Netanyahu said antisemitism had \u201csurged\u201d in France and accused the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[26388,6505,6178,5293,32,34,2000,299,36,39,837,43,2822,811,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-377435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-fuels","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-macron","20":"tag-regions-cohesion","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100394797872220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}