Netanyahu Lashes Out At French FM After 'apartheid' Risk Comment
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published May 27, 2021 | 09:27 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed the "hypocritical and mendacious moralising" remarks of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who warned of possible "long-lasting apartheid" in Israel
Jerusalem, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th May, 2021 ) :Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed the "hypocritical and mendacious moralising" remarks of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who warned of possible "long-lasting apartheid" in Israel.
Speaking about clashes between Jews and Arabs that erupted in several Israeli cities during the latest conflict with Gaza, Le Drian said the "risk of apartheid is high" without an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
"If in the future we had a solution other than the two-state solution, we would have the ingredients of long-lasting apartheid," Le Drian told RTL radio and Le Figaro newspaper in a Sunday interview.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu expressed his "sharp protest" against the French government, following Le Drian's "outrageous" remarks.
"The minister said that Israel was liable to become an apartheid state -- a brazen, false claim that is without any foundation," Netanyahu said in a video recording issued by his office.
"We will not accept any hypocritical and mendacious moralising on this issue," he said.
Israeli air strikes and artillery fire on Gaza killed 254 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded more than 1,900 people in 11 days of conflict from May 10, the health ministry in Gaza says.
Rocket and other fire from Gaza claimed 12 lives in Israel, including one child and an Arab-Israeli teenager, an Israeli soldier, one Indian national and two Thai workers, medics say. Some 357 people in Israel were wounded.
The US-based group Human Rights Watch and Israel's B'Tselem recently accused Israel of running an "apartheid" system, a charge Israel has strongly rejected.
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