Netanyahu blasts French FM for ‘insolent’ claim Israel on way to apartheid

Prime Minister Netanyahu pans French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for saying earlier this week that Israel is at risk of “long-lasting apartheid” in the event that the Palestinians fail to obtain their own state.

Le Drian was referring to Palestinians but also to violent riots by Arab Israelis that erupted in multiple locales amid the fighting with Gaza’s terror groups. He said the unrest “clearly shows that if in the future we had a solution other than the two-state solution, we would have the ingredients of long-lasting apartheid.”

Netanyahu expresses “a strong protest against the French government and the outrageous comments of the French foreign minister on television.”

He rejects Le Drian’s comments as “an insolent, false claim that has no basis. In the State of Israel, all citizens are equal before the law, regardless of their ethnicity. Israel is a beacon of democracy and human rights in our region… We will not suffer any hypocritical and false moral rebukes on this matter.”