Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
By: Ludovic Marin (The Associated Press via NPR)
France turns Fascist. The Vichy French collaborated with NAZIs, too.
If France wants Hamas, then France better control Hamas. Hamas terrorists need a new supply line and Macron has volunteered to fill that vacuum. Hamas terrorists need a new sponsor, France to the rescue. Will the Palestinian flag be kissed in the Palais du Luxembourg and the Palais du Bourbon the same way the Ukrainian flag was kissed in the chambers of the US Congress? Slava Hamas.
Or, is France in typical fashion just stirring the cesspool to blame others for the stink. The Palestinians must wait until September before France comes to their rescue. Is Macron playing politics on the graves of Palestinians he's letting die?
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, in a bold diplomatic move amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision.
Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the U.N. General Assembly in September. "The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved,'' he wrote.
The mostly symbolic move puts added diplomatic pressure on Israel as the war and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip rage. France is now the biggest Western power to recognize Palestine, and the move could pave the way for other countries to do the same. More than 140 countries recognize a Palestinian state, including more than a dozen in Europe.
The Palestinians seek an independent state in the occupied West Bank, annexed east Jerusalem and Gaza, territories Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel's government and most of its political class have long been opposed to Palestinian statehood and now say that it would reward militants after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
''We strongly condemn President Macron's decision,'' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. ''Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it.''
The Palestinian Authority welcomed it. A letter announcing the move was presented Thursday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem.
''We express our thanks and appreciation'' to Macron, Hussein Al Sheikh, the PLO's vice president under Abbas, posted. ''This position reflects France's commitment to international law and its support for the Palestinian people's rights to self-determination.''
The United States "strongly rejects" Macron's plan to recognize a Palestinian state, Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in a post on the social platform X.
"This reckless decision only serves Hamas propaganda and sets back peace. It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th," Rubio said.
With Europe's largest Jewish population and the largest Muslim population in western Europe, France has often seen fighting in the Middle East spill over into protests or other tensions at home.
The French president offered support for Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and frequently speaks out against antisemitism, but he has grown increasingly frustrated about Israel's war in Gaza.
"Given its historic commitment to a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the state of Palestine,'' Macron posted. "Peace is possible.''
Thursday's announcement came soon after the U.S. cut short Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar, saying Hamas wasn't showing good faith.
It also came days before France and Saudi Arabia are co-hosting a conference at the U.N. next week about a two-state solution. Last month, Macron expressed his "determination to recognize the state of Palestine," and he has pushed for a broader movement toward a two-state solution in parallel with recognition of Israel and its right to defend itself.
Momentum has been building against Israel in recent days. Earlier this week, France and more than two dozen mostly European countries condemned Israel's restrictions on aid shipments into the territory and the killings of hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach food.
Macron will join the leaders of Britain and Germany for emergency talks Friday on Gaza, how to get food to the hungry and how to stop fighting.
"We are clear that statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will put us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis,'' British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in announcing the call. "The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.''
Israel annexed east Jerusalem shortly after the 1967 war and considers it part of its capital. In the West Bank, it has built scores of settlements, some resembling sprawling suburbs, that are now home to over 500,000 Jewish settlers with Israeli citizenship. The territory's 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited autonomy in population centers.
The last serious peace talks broke down in 2009, when Netanyahu returned to power. Most of the international community considers the establishment of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel to be the only realistic solution to the century-old conflict.
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French Fascism is progressive enlightenment. Marshal Philippe Pétain would be so proud.
Never mind Petain, it was de Gaulle that put France on this terrible road.
Recognizing Palestine makes them fascist? Explain that logic.
We recognize China. That doesn’t make us Communists.
Because most Palestinians want to erase Israel from the map, along with the Israelis, due to their religio-fascist worldview. Many think this is about land in the sense of creating a Palestinian homeland. It's not. It is religious in nature and Islam cannot tolerate a Jewish state, as it is a n affront to their identity.
A lot of people around the world wish ill on other countries. We still recognize their governments without becoming whatever it is they are.
France surrenders to an Anti semitic dictatorship again. What’s old is new.
rewarding terrorism surely won’t have disastrous long term consequences.
Almost 9% of the French population is Muslim and that percentage is growing. And they don't assimilate.
They need borders.
Submission was an interesting novel about France just gradually turning into a Muslim state through inertia. It’s just easier to give in to energized radicals, which is what they appear to be doing.
Especially when they can vote.
The Jewish population in France is less than 1% of the total population. Obviously Macron sees where the votes are.
I wonder is anybody is left in France with enough stones to raise a resistance? the France of today in 1940 would still be a German possession who fully embraced the Nazi's.
Maybe that is where the Gazans should go
"We are clear that statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will put us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis,'' British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in announcing the call. "The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.''
The "Palestinians" have never wanted a two-state solution. There will be peace and security while Hamas and Hezbollah exist. These militant assholes and the UN are the ones keeping food and supplies from being delivered.
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Did you not mean to say "There will never be peace and security while Hamas and Hezbollah exist."?
That place and the savages that still control it do not deserve anything except condemnation and scorn.