Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lashed out crudely at French President Emmanuel Macron after he said Paris could recognize a Palestinian state within months.

“Screw you!” the younger Netanyahu wrote in English on the social media platform X late on Saturday.

“Yes to independence of New Caledonia! Yes to independence to French Polynesia! Yes to independence of Corsica! Yes to independence of the Basque Country! Yes to independence of French Guinea!” he added, apparently confusing it with French Guiana.

Macron, in an interview to France 5 broadcast on Wednesday, stated that France could take the step during a UN conference in New York in June, saying he hoped this would trigger a reciprocal recognition of Israel by Arab countries.

“We must move toward recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron said.

“I will do it because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to participate in a collective dynamic, which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognize Israel in turn, which many of them do not do.”

Later Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the language of his son’s critique while denouncing Macron’s backing for Palestinian statehood. He also sniped, as Yair had done,........

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