00:00Next, France stands as abject and erroneous.
00:04Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation of anti-Semitism against President Emmanuel Macron
00:09over the French move to recognize a Palestinian state.
00:14France condemns as abhorrent.
00:16Netanyahu's claim that the French decision to recognize a Palestinian state has led to a rise in anti-Semitic acts in France.
00:22President Macron says that France can be taught nothing about anti-Semitism by Netanyahu
00:26and that the Republic will always protect Jews.
00:30A statement from the French President's Office, Elize, adding,
00:33this is a time for seriousness and responsibility, not for conflation and manipulation.
00:39France announced on July the 24th it would join the countries who recognize a Palestinian state
00:46amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and its operation in the occupied West Bank.
00:51Let's bring in now for more comments on the situation, Noga Tarnopolski.
00:55Noga, of course, is our correspondent in Jerusalem.
00:59Noga, a very good evening to you.
01:00So a real diplomatic spat here between Netanyahu and Macron.
01:04That's right. A very unusually sharp diplomatic spat, perhaps more than a spat.
01:14But I have to tell you that this is in the context of Israeli diplomacy recently becoming more of a punching match
01:21than an arena of smooth words like what one might expect.
01:25Today, before sending this extremely aggressive letter to President Macron of France,
01:32the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu sent a similar letter to Australian Prime Minister Antony Albanese,
01:39as in the case of Macron, accusing him of betraying Israel and of abandoning his own Jewish citizens.
01:46Later in the day, we found out that the foreign minister, a close ally of the Prime Minister,
01:51had sent Denmark an angry message through the foreign minister decrying comments made by the Danish Prime Minister.
01:59So it's just one punch after the other here.
02:03And it's leaving Israelis, I have to tell you, quite confused.
02:06The people here in Israel have long ago moved on from the French announcement of possible recognition of the Palestinian state
02:15and I think are now more or less confused by all of these angry exchanges being made in the public view.
02:22Can we...
02:24I don't know.
02:28I'm going to tell you, quite a little bit.
02:31But my friends are saying,
02:32I think there are a few people who've been on this in the public view.
02:34But if I don't know that the world is still getting to the French or from the French or from the French or from the French,
02:36we're just going to never know that the British are feeling that the British are being made in the public view.
02:38So, it's really going to be the same thing.
02:41So, I don't think that the British has been very successful in the past.
02:44So, I think that the British are a to be the same thing,
02:49a context-ish or a context-ish.
02:51And, as I thought, about that the British are a bit more difficult.
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