The Tackle too much. The delegated minister in charge of foreign trade, Laurent Saint-Martin denounced, this Monday, August 25, TF1, “erroneous and unacceptable comments”, after a letter from the US ambassador to France Charles Kushner, in which the last criticism “the absence of sufficient actions” of President Emmanuel against Trashuemitism.
“France has no lessons to receive in the fight against anti -Semitism,” said the Minister in the Bonjour set! TF1 morning.
In response to these accusations, Quai d’Orsay summoned the ambassador on Monday, so that he can explain it “about the content of this letter,” said Laurent Saint-Martin.
This meeting will be used at the same time to remind you of “international law, which stipulates that one should not interfere with the internal affairs of the State in which one is a resident as an ambassador,” he continued.
In a letter addressed to the President of the Republic, and consulted on Sunday by AFP, Charles Kushner said “his deep concern against the outbreak of anti -Semitism in France and the lack of sufficient action of (his) government to fight it.”
These criticisms occur a few days after a violent Benjamin Netyahu load Against the French president who accuses of “feeding the anti -Semitic fire” by requesting international recognition of the Palestine State. “
Americans “are the wrong goal”
For the minister’s delegate in charge of foreign trade, Laurent Saint-Martin, the United States undoubtedly has a goal. Since the beginning of his first term in 2017, “the President of the Republic said we had to fight anti -rings because it is a new form of anti -Semitism,” he said.
“The President of the Republic, the Common Foundation, the majority, France behind his voice, has never stopped fighting armed against the emergence of anti -Semitics,” he insisted, arguing that it would be good for the ambassador to apologize.
“Being confused in the objective in the fight against semitism is being wrong with anger, combat and not luxurious to fight this scourge. I think the Americans and Français must be together, instead of dividing,” said the minister.
Anti -Semitic acts have clearly increased in France since October 7, 2023, the date of Hamas unprecedented attacks against Israel and the beginning of the war in Gaza.
The solution of two states
Another point of disagreement: recognition of the Palestinian State by France. If the American ambassador sees this initiative as the open door to the extremists, for Laurent Saint-Martin, “is the opposite.”
“What France does through the voice of the President of the Republic is a sustainable peace solution, the solution to two states. It is to isolate Hamas with precision,” he replied.
At the end of July, Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine in the UN General Assembly in September. In the process, more than a dozen Western countries, including Canada, as well as Australia, have asked other countries in the world to do the same.
Source: BFM TV
