Emmanuel Macron denounces a “lack of professionalism” of his ministers after feedback reported about Benjamin Netanyahu which created controversy | EUROtoday

Emmanuel Macron denounced Thursday October 17 within the night one “lack of professionalism” ministers, journalists and “commentators”accusing them of “distorted words” on Israel, which gave rise to a heated controversy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I think I say enough about the situation in the Middle East not to need a ventriloquist”denounced the French president in Brussels, concerning his feedback reported throughout a council of ministers in Paris.

“There are councils of ministers every week, which are reported to the press by the government spokesperson and by a press release”declared the Head of State within the introduction to a press convention following the European Council. “For the resthe continued, It is up to each of the participants in this council to be respectful of the rules and their functions out of ethics, out of personal discipline, so as not to circulate false, truncated or taken out of context information.”

“Words reported truncated and transformed”

Participants within the council of ministers on Tuesday claimed that Mr. Macron would have declared that Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn’t “not forget that your country was created by a decision of the UN” and would have invited the Israeli Prime Minister not directly to not “free yourself from UN decisions”. “It is also up to journalists and commentators to treat truncated and transformed reported words with the necessary precautions” judged the President of the Republic, with out specifying what precisely he would have expressed in the course of the council of ministers.

“I was stunned to read so many comments, comments of comments, reactions, including from foreign or French political leaders to comments I made, without asking the question of knowing what they were saying and what exactly I would have said”was indignant Mr. Macron for whom “all of that is mainly proof of a disintegration of public debate and a scarcity of professionalism on the a part of ministers who repeated distorted feedback, journalists who repeated them and commentators who didn’t give attention to actuality and to the veracity of such remarks.