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Netanyahu Denounces Macron For Claiming Israel Owes Its Existence to the UN

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President Emmanuel Macron of France has been reported as saying that Israel “should not forget” that it was “created by the UN” — and therefore, presumably, it ought not to be making life difficult for the UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was outraged by this remark. More on Macron, and on Netanyahu’s response, can be found here: “Macron: Israel was created by UN, Netanyahu should not forget it – report,” Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2024:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not fail to forget that a UN resolution created Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron said while convening with ministers on Tuesday, according to Le Parisien.

“Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a decision of the UN. Therefore, he should not liberate himself from the decisions of the UN,” the French daily newspaper cited Macron as saying behind closed doors.

Macron’s remarks referenced the UN Resolution 181 adopted on November 29, 1947.

“A reminder to the French President: It was not a UN decision that established the State of Israel but the victory that was achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated in response.

Le Parisien noted that the French president’s comments were made in relation to Israel’s operation in southern Lebanon and the recent incidents concerning the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which saw IDF troops firing at UNIFIL posts along the border….

The IDF troops do not fire at UNIFIL soldiers. They return the fire of Hezbollah operatives who are deliberately stationing themselves as close to UNIFIL troops and outposts as they possibly can. In the fog of war, and with Hezbollah combatants placing themselves so close to UNIFIL — even within 20-30 meters in some cases — it is hardly surprising that a few UNIFIL soldiers have been hit by IDF fire. The IDF has repeatedly pleaded with UNIFIL to move away from Hezbollah forces and the combat zone; UNIFIL has refused. It is apparently willing to have its troops be used as human shields by Hezbollah.

Those UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon have been there for 18 years. In that time, they have failed utterly to make Hezbollah pull back north of the Litani River, as required by UNSC Resolution 1701. In fact, Hezbollah has sent more men and weapons south of the Litani River in that time, and has dug a network of terror tunnels that now snake underground from southern Lebanon into Israel. UNIFIL has done nothing to halt these preparations for war by Hezbollah. Yet the UN now piously calls for UNIFIL to remain in place, where it will remain unable to prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets and drones into Israel, but as human shields will limit the IDF’s response.

Macron claims that “the UN created Israel.” No, it did not. UN Resolution 181, passed in November 1947, approved the carving out, from the territory of the Palestine Mandate, of two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jews accepted the resolution, the Arabs unanimously rejected it.

What created the state of Israel were the Jews themselves, who had since the beginning of the twentieth century, even before the Balfour Declaration — actually a letter to Lord Rothschild — in November 1917, started their “return to Zion” by buying land and settling what was Ottoman-ruled Palestine until the Turkish defeat in World War I, and then became the territory assigned to the Mandate for Palestine, with Great Britain as the Mandatary. The Mandate’s sole purpose was to create the conditions for a Jewish state to be formed, by “facilitating” — see Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine — Jewish immigration and “close settlement by Jews on the land.” And Jews continued to buy — not seize —land from Arab and Turkish landowners, and to settle in Mandatory Palestine.

The day after the Jews of Israel — with no help from the UN — declared their independence on May 14, 1948, five Arab armies invaded, intent on snuffing out the young life of the Jewish state, whose existence on land that had once been possessed by Muslims was regarded by the Arabs as such an outrage. The UN played no part in that war; it did nothing to help the Jews. It was the Jews of Israel, with no help from anyone save for some Jews in the Diaspora who sent money and shipments of small arms, who defeated the Arabs and created their tiny state on only part of the territory that had been assigned to the Jews by the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine.

And the UN has in recent decades been a hotbed of anti-Israel activities, with endless resolutions passed at the General Assembly that target the Jewish state. More anti-Israel resolutions are passed by the General Assembly than those for all the other 192 member states put together. Fortunately, General Assembly resolutions have no enforcement mechanism. And at the UN Security Council, Agenda item 7, concerning the “human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ” is raised at every session of the Council. Only the American veto has prevented a rash of anti-Israel resolutions from being adopted and, what’s more, enforced.

Netanyahu’s furious response to Macron’s ahistorical claim was exactly what was called for. Who created Israel? Not UN Resolution 181. The Jews did, heroically, with no help from the U.N. or any other polity, including France.

Comments

  1. macron should read a Bible. Begin with Genesis where Abraham is promised a Land. Keep reading and find out how this promise was fulfilled with the offspring of Jacob, a.k.a. Israel, leaving Egypt.

    macron is an idiot. He should realize he knows nothing, and begin trying to learn. And give back the gazillions he has gotten from mozlums.

    • One of the problems of being an idiot is never realizing you’re an idiot!

      • Plenty true, John.

        On the other end of the spectrum, not infrequently, are highly intelligent and productive “fact-based” people who actually have an inferiority complex.

        I’ve met more than a few “Type A” highly accomplished physicians that actually suffer from this.

        They feel that they are never quite “good enough”.

    • Macron ought to confess that the so-called “French Resistance” consisted of only about 10,000 people, mostly the French Communist Party, and that its greatest threat was not the German Gestapo but betrayal by French collaborators. And truth be told, almost the entire nation of France were collaborators with the Germans in every way. The first major allied invasion of the war, Operation Torch in 1942 in the French provinces of North Africa, didn’t encounter German or Italian troops initially — their enemy were French soldiers. Thousands of French volunteered to join the Nazi forces and the last unit to surrender to the Soviets in Berlin in 1945 was the French SS Unit, the “Charlemagne Regiment. And even the Gestapo’s director lamented the Gestapo henchmen were so much less effective than French police at capturing French Jews in hiding and turning them over for transport to the Nazi death camps. It is infuriating to see France trumpeting its war dead (miniscule compared to what Axis and what the other Allied nations suffered) because their total includes the French Jews that French collaborators betrayed to the death camps. France as a whole, and wretches like Macron, are a shame before the world. Great wine and cheese, horrific history and culture.

  2. Excellent article and very important that people know the historical facts. Too many people like Macron do not know the facts and therefore misinterpret information which is then spread. JihadWatch and the writers are superb. Thank you.

  3. In the words of the immortal Bard, Macron go Fu@k yourself you are a ignoramus buffoon, a cretinous retard in need of reality & history.

  4. “The IDF troops do not fire at UNIFIL soldiers” … even though those UN “peacekeepers” are almost certainly passing on IDF movements to Hezbollah, because they can’t use phones, pagers, or pigeons.

    I wonder what the names and religious designation of the UN troops in Lebanon are, especially the French ones.

  5. What happened in 1947/8 was as foretold in the Jewish Bible and subsequently in the Christian Bible ” that you will lose your country be scattered among all the nations of the earth and become the curse of the nations but eventually you will get your country back and there will a great conflict with a vast army from the north”etc. It is to the credit of G B that we were instrumental in enabling the biblical prophesy coming about. The other great English speaking peoples has taken over the protection of God’s people.

  7. Maybe Macron shouldn’t forget that Syria was a part of the Ottoman empire after it was a part of various caliphates and sultanates, and that what his country carved up, w/ the Brits, was pretty illegitimate in its own right. There was no Westphalian model for the Arabs at the time ie no difference b/w Transjordan and Syria, or Syria and Iraq, and so on

  8. Netanyahu Denounces Macron For Claiming Israel Owes Its Existence to the UN
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    Macron understands little about history.

  9. Wonder if Macron has ever taken the time to read the Larousse French dictionary from 1939 ?

  10. Macron remains the same ignorant cartoon fool who married his dancing teacher.

  11. Macron is a disgrace. Every time this emasculated toy boy opens his mouth he just makes himself look more ridiculous. It’s time the native French people wise up and rise up

  13. This whole pile of cow flop was caused by the League of Nations, The United States was never a member, and The British Mandate of Palestine they granted in 1922 when the Ottoman Empire finally fell. It was the war ravaged UK’s bad handling of this mandate that is foundation of what is happening today.

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