The nephew of French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was stabbed in Israel last week after France announced it would not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A gang of Israeli men targeted the PM’s nephew along with two other tourists in the seaside resort of Eilat.
The stabbing comes at a time when both President Emmanuel Macron and Mr Philippe refuse to accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.
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Dailymail.co.uk reports: This has greatly angered many in Israel, and especially those who do not want East Jerusalem to be set aside as the capital of a Palestinian state.
Mr Philippe has also controversially backed the publication of anti-Semitic essays by the author Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, better known as Celine, despite fury from France’s sizeable Jewish community.
By Monday night, Israeli news outlets were reporting the shocking Eilat crime, while French media ones generally remained silent.
According to the Israeli i24 news channel: ‘The French consul in Tel Aviv was rushed to the spot urgently.
‘Three French tourists, including the nephew of the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who was on holiday in the seaside resort of Eilat in Israel, were attacked last Wednesday by a group of Israelis.
‘The municipal police found three young tourists lying on the Eilat Promenade with stab wounds on the lower part of their bodies. Two of them were slightly hurt, and the third more seriously.’
All were taken to a local hospital, where they were later joined by the French consul, who is thought to have contacted Mr Philippe immediately.
Two of those hurt were released from hospital on Thursday, while the third remained in a ward. It is not known if he is Mr Philippe’s nephew.
A criminal enquiry into the attack has been launched in Israel, with police attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. They are all believed to be Israeli men, according to detectives.
There was no comment on the incident from France’s Ambassador to Israel, or from the French foreign ministry.
On Monday, President Macron reaffirmed his country’s commitment to a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Leaders on both sides must continue ‘calling for calm and dialogue’, Mr Macron said during a meeting with members of the Palestinian Central Council.
It follows American President Donald Trump plunging the area into renewed chaos by recognising Jerusalem as solely being the capital of Israel, and not Palestine too.
This shocked Western allies including France and Britain as much as it did Arab leaders, who insist that East Jerusalem must become the capital of Palestine.
On Sunday Mr Philippe said he was fine about the publication of Celine’s anti-Semitic essays.
Referring to Celine, Mr Philippe said: ‘There are very good reasons to detest the man himself, but you cannot deny the writer’s central position in French literature.’
But CRIF, France’s main Jewish umbrella group, said in a statement that it opposed the publication of the three ‘racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler’ essays.
Last year the Jewish Agency of Israel claimed that 5000 Jews emigrated to Israel from France in 2016, partly because of security fears, and an atmosphere of anti-Semitism condoned by those in power.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
” THE ENTIRE PALESTINIAN IS THE ENEMY ” AND JUSTIFIED ITS DESTRUCTION, INCLUDING ITS ELDERLY AND ITS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ITS CITIES AND ITS VILLAGES, ITS PROPERTY AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE.” SHE ALSO CALLED FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIAN MOTHERS WHO GIVE BIRTH TO ” LITTLE SNAKES ” HER POSTING ON FACEBOOK SOUNDS HATEFUL, BUT THE E.U. HAS NEVER BOTHERED TO LAUNCH AN INITIATIVE TO HOLD ISRAELI LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE THEIR RACIST AND GENOCIDAL INCITEMENT. JUSTICE MINISTER Ayelet Shaked 2014
The EU, USA and Middle East today are all GOYS of the Zionist Israeli Talmudic Beliefs … the free world should not expect anything from these – the free world is called UPON to UNITE and act AWAY FROM THEIR ZIONIST GOVERNMENTS INCLUDING ARAB MUSLIM STATES …