In order for her apology to be accepted, said Mr Osei, the journalist should have appealed to the Agona traditional authority and taken along with her, her parents and the owners of the TV station that broadcast the critical remarks.

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made critical remarks about Israel's English-language public diplomacy during a closed-door meeting with two parliamentary committees on Tuesday.

President Biden met with the families of Americans being held hostage in Gaza at the White House on Wednesday, a day after giving his most critical remarks to date about what he called Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of the territory.

In his most critical remarks so far, President Biden told Israel’s leaders that they were losing international support for their war in Gaza, exposing a widening rift with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who rejected out of hand an American vision for a postwar resolution to the conflict that would put the Palestinian Authority in charge of the territory.

O'Sullivan, who is no stranger to making critical remarks about the state of the sport or threatening to quit, said there needs to be more appreciation shown to those at the top of the world rankings.