France’s Middle East ambassadors address Macron in collective message: “This retreat is unfortunate”

WORLD, Nov. 14 (YPA) – Many French ambassadors to the Middle East have expressed their regret that Paris’ retreat from its position on the Israeli war on Gaza.

This is an unprecedented gesture in the modern history of French diplomacy in the Arab world, where many French ambassadors to the Middle East and some Maghreb countries, about a dozen, according to the newspaper “Le Figaro”, wrote and signed a collective memorandum, in which they regrated the pro-Israel retreat taken by French President Emmanuel Macron in the ongoing war between the Jewish state and Hamas.

The joint memorandum was sent to the Elysee, and a French diplomat briefed on it said: “This is not a joke, but in the memo, which cannot be described as an opposition note, these ambassadors emphasize that our pro-Israel position at the beginning of the crisis is currently misunderstood in the Middle East, and it contradicts our traditional balanced position on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.”

The ambassadors expressed concern about the repercussions of the situation on France’s interests in the region. The newspaper article reveals a split within the French Foreign Ministry over their country’s position on what is happening.

Earlier, the French president, during a phone call with his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, retracted his statements he made during an interview with the BBC last Friday, in which he said that the Israeli bombardment has become targeting civilians, women and children, and is illegal, calling on Israel to stop doing so.

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