**The president faces the security forces in the Old City, just like Chirac in 1996** Twenty-four years after President Jacques Chirac faced the Israeli security forces who followed him closely during a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem , his current successor to the Elysium, Emmanuel Macron , ordered Wednesday with a firm gesture to the Police leaving a French-owned church in the walled enclosure of the Holy City before entering the temple. “Everyone knows the rules. Outside, please, ”the French president snapped in French to the Israeli agents inside Santa Ana, a 12th-century church located on the Via Dolorosa, considered as French territory in Jerusalem and where security forces Israelis have no jurisdiction. The religious precinct belongs to France since 1856, when it was ceded to Napoleon III by the Ottoman Empire. It is currently registered in the name of the French Government with three other properties and is administered by the White Fathers order. "I don't like what he's doing in front of me," Macron said visibly angry at one of the policemen in the churchyard. “Go outside, please. No one has to provoke anyone. Understood? ”Added the French president, who then warned expeditiously:“ We will all remain calm. We will have a wonderful visit and you will have done a good job. ” Finally, he added: “But respect the rules established for centuries. I can assure you that they will not change with me. ” https://twitter.com/i/status/1219990969485012994 In 1996, President Chirac was confronted sharply with the Israeli soldiers who followed him during a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem while trying to greet local residents. In a gesture of remembered grandeur in France, Chirac put a hand on the shoulder of an Israeli officer and asked him in an ironic way: "Do you want me to take the plane back?" The Old City, which houses sacred places of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, is located in the eastern part of Jerusalem, militarily occupied by Israel in 1967 after having remained under Jordanian administration after the end of the British mandate on Palestine in 1948 . Spokesmen of the Israeli police and Shin Bet (internal security) said that the situation in Santa Ana originated from a discussion with Macron's bodyguards about the presence of Israeli agents inside the church. According to the same sources, the incident was resolved "according to terms previously agreed", after the French president demanded that the guidelines governing the temple be respected. The France Presse agency, present at the scene, found that a member of the Israeli security forces was expelled from the church by the Elysee escorts amid screams and struggles. Macron had met a few hours earlier with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who guaranteed that "France is determined that Iran can never endow nuclear weapons," although he opposed any kind of war escalation in the Middle East. The president is in Jerusalem to participate in the Fifth World Forum on the Holocaust, which brings together dozens of heads of state and government. In his meeting with the president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, Macron was more explicit in defending the inclusion of the denial of Israel's existence in the definition of anti-Semitism. "That does not mean that we will not have disagreements or that we will not criticize a specific action by the Government of Israel," he said before the host of the Holocaust forum. On his first trip to the Holy Land since his arrival at the Elysium three years ago, Macron met in the afternoon with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in a diplomatic gesture that has not supported any of the main leaders who have attended the Conclave in Jerusalem. Paris has abandoned its multinational peace plan initiative for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for now. "A peace process is only possible if the parties want to build it," the president warned, after referring to the expansion of Israeli settlements as a "policy of accomplished facts." https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/22/actualidad/1579711357_518300.html