In call last week, PM panned Macron for backing UN resolution against Israel — official

After French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that he was “pushing the region to war,” an Israeli official familiar with the conversation tells The Times of Israel that the premier was “very pointed” in the phone call.

The official says that Netanyahu criticized France’s vote last week in favor of a UN resolution demanding a full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem within a year and Paris’s support for the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s call for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The official adds that in recent days Netanyahu also spoke with the Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

“The world leaders point out that they are under media and internal pressure to go against Israel,” says the official, to which Netanyahu responds that Israel was not about to “commit suicide” for positive coverage.