Excusez-moi, Macron? French leader takes dig at Turnbull and Libs at a Sydney dinner

Emmanuel Macron lectures Malcolm Turnbull on climate change. The French President at a Sydney reception, Tuesday night:

I am fully aware of the political and economic debate surrounding this issue in your country … I think that actual leaders are those that can respect those existing interests, but at the same time decide to participate in something broader …

Macron lectures Donald Trump on everything. The French leader addresses the US congress, April 25:

The United States is the one who invented this multilateralism. You are the one now who has to help preserve and reinvent it.

Macron lectures all of Britain. The French President on the BBC, January 19:

It’s a mistake when you just ask “yes” or “no” (about Brexit); when you don’t ask people how to improve the situation and explain how to improve it.

Maybe Macron should fix his own country before sticking his nose up at us? The Times, yesterday:

Thousands of masked protesters left scenes of devastation in Paris as they ransacked shops and fought with police …

Sticking with international affairs, Margaret Wenham writes about Israel in The Courier-Mail, yesterday:

On May 15 this year, Palestinian Arabs will commemorate the 70th anniversary of al Nakba, “the catastrophe”, marking 70 years since Zionist David Ben-Gurion unilaterally declared the establishment of a Jewish State … pursuant to the 1947 UN-sanctioned partition plan.

What is the definition of unilaterally exactly? The Oxford English Dictionary:

Done by … one side only.

Hardly unilateral if the UN backed it. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website:

(The UN special committee on Palestine) recommended the establishment of two separate states, Jewish and Arab …

Wenham in The Courier-Mail, continued:

Following Ben-Gurion’s declaration … the civil war became the full-blown 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War, resulting in hundreds of thousands more Palestinian Arabs fleeing or being expelled.

Never mind that many Jews were expelled from their Middle Eastern homes. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website:

850,000 Jewish refugees … were displaced from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century.

Then there’s the threat Israel still faces. Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, Monday:

So the Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe (in the lead-up to the Holocaust) was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to unscrupulous moneylending …

And finally, Facebook finds love. Mark Zuckerberg launches his new dating service in San Jose, yesterday:

There are 200 million people on Facebook that list themselves as single, so clearly there’s something to do here.

Who would trust Facebook with their love letters? Zuckerberg in front of the US Senate, April 11:

Senator Dick Durbin: Would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night? If you messaged anybody this week …?

Zuckerberg: … no, I would probably not choose to do that publicly here.