Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly criticized French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for saying Israel was on the way to becoming an apartheid state. Speaking in a televised interview, Le Drian said that âif in the future we had a solution other than the two-state solution, we would have the ingredients of long-lasting apartheid.â Advertisement '); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: '/', type: 'banner', zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, secure: true }); The ârisk of apartheid is high,â if Israel were to continue to act âaccording to a single-state logic,â he added. Netanyahu expressed his âsharp protest against the remarksâ during an event on Wednesday evening and said that Le Drianâs claims were âbrazenâ and âfalseâ and âwithout any foundation.â