The French president, who reportedly sought in vain to schedule meetings with U.S. leaders in New York, said he will name a new prime minister “in the coming days." Shortly after a source told JNS that American Jewish leaders would have declined French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to meet in New York even if it wasn’t a conflict with Rosh Hashanah, the French Parliament voted 364-194 on Monday to oust François Bayrou as its prime minister, collapsing the current government.
“I think the organizations, for the most part, would not have participated,” the source told JNS of meeting with Macron in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. “The guy has a 15% popularity rating in France. It’s not our job to help him out.” Macron has also said that France intends to recognize a Palestinian state during the U.N. meeting in New York.
Israel and others have said that such a decision rewards Hamas for its Oct. 7 terror attacks. “Next time, Emmanuel Macron, before going out to proclaim Narnia as an independent state, you’d do well to check what’s happening at home,” state d Amihai Chikli, Israeli minister for diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, in French. (Ed note: Just a thought: because President Macron is pushing Israel with his two state solution, could God now be leaning on the country of France?) (Read More)
