“Israel will not accept it either. Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to such attacks – and this is what we are going to do.”
Mr Macron said: “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in Gaza.”
Later, he added that he “regrets” Mr Netanyahu’s decision to launch a ground invasion in Lebanon.
The denunciation came as Israel is increasingly confident it has killed the likely successor to Hassan Nasrallah, former Hezbollah leader, in an air strike.
“We don’t know if he was at the targeted site, or who may have been there with him,” the source said.
Israel’s strike at Hezbollah’s underground intelligence headquarters in the suburb of Dahiyeh involved around 60 tons of bombs, according to Israel’s N12 news.
Saudi TV channel Al Hadath quoted sources who said that “the scope of the attack in Beirut, which was aimed at the culprit Safieddine, leaves no room to escape alive”.
Reuters quoted Lebanese security sources who said Israeli strikes on Dahiyeh have kept rescue workers from scouring the site of the attack.
Hezbollah has made no comment since the attack.
Lt Col Nadav Shoshani said on Friday that the Israeli military was still assessing the Thursday night air strikes.
This is like a Civ VI level headline
Sigh…
The region has been fighting long before we got here and it’ll be fighting long after we’re all gone. The only thing that’ll make it stop is if someone glasses the region so no one can have it.
I understand that there are larger forces at play here but I sometimes just wonder if it would be easier to just have “the west” pull out and let them bash the shit out of each other.
Atleast Israel is keeping on msg with the Old Testament about destroying neighbors
Bibi listens to nobody except himself and his consortium of mike pences in yamakas
Netanyahu is a criminal. He would have likely been prosecuted and be in jail now if it weren’t for this conflict. He has no interest in actually seeing the conflict resolved.
Macron speaks for his own name he should not associate France to this topic and anyway he is nobody now no power anymore
I gotta say I’m beginning to thing that this guy has his own definition of winning. Like the state of what’s going on in Israel regardless of the war is so bad and he wastes his time doing this pointless videos. Well I guess Macron really offended Sara.
Civ 6 just got real
I don’t really understand France in this situation, Israel is in a very sticky situation with Lebanon and Iran.
The Hezbollah a Lebanese militia, pushed Israel’s Buttons for a long time and it’s facing the consequences and Iran sends several missiles to Israel as retaliation, shouldn’t it be proof enough that Iran has its fingers in this strange conflict?
I imagine Macron doesn’t want a Lebanon/Egypt situation in his own backyard.
When the worst person you know made a great point. Also, a french president denying weapons from Israel to appease the Arab, not the first time: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project)
fuck netanyahu . he needs to go the way of drumft. put an end to the madness. we need to let our leaders know that we see their bullshit, and know it for what it is. it needs to end one way or the other. he’s going to make it the wrong way.
You would think of all countries France would want to help aid the fight of islamic terrorism
Fuck Macron and the rest of the French gov. Le Prick isn’t any better….Oi vei…
Edit: spelling.
I think Bibi should stop being butthurt and just dismantle Hamas and Hezbollah like he claims to be doing. France isn’t even a major provider.
He just sounds like a whiny baby. Tough stuff buddy.
France about to experience some “Muslim” terrorism.
France is an Islamic country now, not a surprise
5 turns until war then
Whatever. Asshole doesn’t like being called out.
Macron is, once again, making another tragical mistake. After calling for parliamentary election which brought the National Front being a short step from the French Presidency, he is calling for embargo like De Gaulle did to appease the Arab world and the Iranian Ayatollahs.
Since the retreat from Algiers, the French are trying this approach – what do they have to show that this approach works?
How dare Macron! That anti semite!
Macron expects Israel to absorb raids, forget about hostages, and just take thousands of missiles and not respond. I just have no words.
Hard to judge but it really feels like we are living in a moment of major, memorable, and transformative world leaders all at the same time.
Sure it’s changed since the early 2000s that China and Russia have discarded term limits, but even then there are a lot of long-term major characters like Macron, Netanyahu, I guess Merkel would be in the mix, Britain on the periphery another storyline, Trudeau, Abe, Erdogan, Modi, Khamenei, and Imran Khan
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From The Telegraph:
[Benjamin Netanyahu](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/01/benjamin-netanyahu-asked-vladimir-putin-stop-iran/), Israel’s prime minister, issued a furious denunciation of [French president Emmanuel Macron](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/03/eu-could-die-says-emmanuel-macron-us-china-nato/) on Saturday over the latter’s calls for a worldwide arms embargo on Israel.
“I have a message for [president Macron](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/emmanuel-macron/),” Mr Netanyahu said in a video address.
“Israel will win with or without” the support of France, the prime minister said, as he cited the threats to Israel on seven fronts.
Referring to Mr Macron’s remarks as a “disgrace”, Mr Netanyahu said France’s “shame will continue long after the war is won”.
He added that “Iran is behind all the threats against us”.
Mr Netanyahu said: “No country in the world would accept such an attack,” as the one Iran delivered on Tuesday, when [200 missiles were fired at Israel](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/02/how-iran-could-breach-israel-air-defences-missiles/).
“Israel will not accept it either. Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to such attacks – and this is what we are going to do.”
Mr Macron said: “I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in Gaza.”
Later, he added that he “regrets” Mr Netanyahu’s decision to launch a ground invasion in Lebanon.
The denunciation came as Israel is increasingly confident it has killed the likely successor to Hassan Nasrallah, former Hezbollah leader, in an air strike.
[Contact with Hashem Safieddine has been lost since the Israeli attack on Beirut](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/israel-iran-war-lebanon-hezbollah-latest-news/) on Thursday night, a high-level Hezbollah source told AFP.
“We don’t know if he was at the targeted site, or who may have been there with him,” the source said.
Israel’s strike at Hezbollah’s underground intelligence headquarters in the suburb of Dahiyeh involved around 60 tons of bombs, according to Israel’s N12 news.
Saudi TV channel Al Hadath quoted sources who said that “the scope of the attack in Beirut, which was aimed at the culprit Safieddine, leaves no room to escape alive”.
Reuters quoted Lebanese security sources who said Israeli strikes on Dahiyeh have kept rescue workers from scouring the site of the attack.
Hezbollah has made no comment since the attack.
Lt Col Nadav Shoshani said on Friday that the Israeli military was still assessing the Thursday night air strikes.
This is like a Civ VI level headline
Sigh…
The region has been fighting long before we got here and it’ll be fighting long after we’re all gone. The only thing that’ll make it stop is if someone glasses the region so no one can have it.
I understand that there are larger forces at play here but I sometimes just wonder if it would be easier to just have “the west” pull out and let them bash the shit out of each other.
Atleast Israel is keeping on msg with the Old Testament about destroying neighbors
Bibi listens to nobody except himself and his consortium of mike pences in yamakas
Netanyahu is a criminal. He would have likely been prosecuted and be in jail now if it weren’t for this conflict. He has no interest in actually seeing the conflict resolved.
Macron speaks for his own name he should not associate France to this topic and anyway he is nobody now no power anymore
I gotta say I’m beginning to thing that this guy has his own definition of winning.
Like the state of what’s going on in Israel regardless of the war is so bad and he wastes his time doing this pointless videos.
Well I guess Macron really offended Sara.
Civ 6 just got real
I don’t really understand France in this situation, Israel is in a very sticky situation with Lebanon and Iran.
The Hezbollah a Lebanese militia, pushed Israel’s Buttons for a long time and it’s facing the consequences and Iran sends several missiles to Israel as retaliation, shouldn’t it be proof enough that Iran has its fingers in this strange conflict?
I imagine Macron doesn’t want a Lebanon/Egypt situation in his own backyard.
When the worst person you know made a great point.
Also, a french president denying weapons from Israel to appease the Arab, not the first time:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project)
fuck netanyahu . he needs to go the way of drumft. put an end to the madness. we need to let our leaders know that we see their bullshit, and know it for what it is. it needs to end one way or the other. he’s going to make it the wrong way.
You would think of all countries France would want to help aid the fight of islamic terrorism
Feels like a time to [yoink](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project) some more missile boats eh buddy ol’ yingle?
Fuck Macron and the rest of the French gov. Le Prick isn’t any better….Oi vei…
Edit: spelling.
I think Bibi should stop being butthurt and just dismantle Hamas and Hezbollah like he claims to be doing. France isn’t even a major provider.
He just sounds like a whiny baby. Tough stuff buddy.
France about to experience some “Muslim” terrorism.
France is an Islamic country now, not a surprise
5 turns until war then
Whatever. Asshole doesn’t like being called out.
Macron is, once again, making another tragical mistake. After calling for parliamentary election which brought the National Front being a short step from the French Presidency, he is calling for embargo like De Gaulle did to appease the Arab world and the Iranian Ayatollahs.
Since the retreat from Algiers, the French are trying this approach – what do they have to show that this approach works?
How dare Macron! That anti semite!
Macron expects Israel to absorb raids, forget about hostages, and just take thousands of missiles and not respond. I just have no words.
Hard to judge but it really feels like we are living in a moment of major, memorable, and transformative world leaders all at the same time.
Sure it’s changed since the early 2000s that China and Russia have discarded term limits, but even then there are a lot of long-term major characters like Macron, Netanyahu, I guess Merkel would be in the mix, Britain on the periphery another storyline, Trudeau, Abe, Erdogan, Modi, Khamenei, and Imran Khan