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French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clashed on Sunday over the French leader’s call for an arms embargo on Israel on the eve of the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel.
Yet the halting and slowing down of weapons deliveries from the U.K., Germany, France and others have had little impact on Israel’s ability to prosecute its multifront war, experts told Jewish Insider this week, while warning the hold on arms could put pressure on the U.S., the country that matters most.
Maj.-Gen. (res.) Israel Ziv said that “Israel currently has enough supplies to continue fighting…A large part of what we need is manufactured in Israel.”
In a radio interview on Sunday, Macron said that “the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in Gaza.”
The French president also warned that Lebanon “cannot become a new Gaza.” READ MORE…
