French ambassadors in the Middle East reject Macron’s support for Israel and put the president against the wall

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247 – Several French ambassadors to the Middle East and some Maghreb countries — about a dozen, according to Le Figaro — collectively signed a memorandum denouncing France’s pro-Israel stance in the conflict between Tel Aviv and the Palestinians.

According to the French newspaper, “The joint memorandum was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with recipients at the Elysee Palace, according to a diplomat in Paris who read it.” “It’s not an obvious hit,” the diplomat adds, but in the memo, which can still be described as a memorandum of contention, these ambassadors state that our pro-Israel stance at the beginning of the crisis had been misunderstood in the Middle East. East, and this contradicts our traditionally balanced position between Israelis and Palestinians, says the Parisian newspaper.

According to this diplomat, it “indicates France’s loss of credibility and influence, and indicates the bad image of our country in the Arab world.” Then he suggests in a very diplomatic way that all of this is the result of the positions taken by the President of the Republic.”

Contacted by Le Figaro, three former senior diplomats confirmed that this was “an unprecedented collective initiative on the part of the French ambassadors to the Middle East,” as highlighted by Denis Bouchard, Charles-Henri Daragon, and Yves Aubin de la Mesosière. , former ambassadors to the Maghreb and the Middle East. The memo’s authors collectively pledged to maintain discretion.

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