Paris (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron decides Recognize the Palestinian stateprompting similar moves from other Western countries, Israel and its US allies were angry by bringing back two state solutions to the centre of devastating efforts War in Gaza.
In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, Macron wrote, “Our resolve to see Palestinians have their own nation is rooted in our belief that enduring peace is essential to the security of the nation of Israel.”
France’s diplomatic efforts “result from our rage at the horrific humanitarian disaster of Gaza, which is unjustified,” Macron added. Israel declared Gaza’s biggest city on Friday Combat Zone According to the Ministry of Health of the Territories, the death toll has surpassed the 63,000 Palestinians since the start of the war in an Israel-led attack on October 7, 2023.
France, the UK, Canada, Australia and Malta said They will formalize their pledge During the annual meeting of world leaders at the UN General Assembly, which begins on September 23rd. Several others, including New Zealand, Finland and Portugal, are considering similar moves.
Netanyahu Rejecting the Palestinian state Plans to expand military attacks in Gaza.
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Macron’s letter comes after Netanyahu accused him of “fueling” the “anti-Semitism fire” in his call to the Palestinian state. Macron’s criticism As “abject.”
Last week, the US Ambassador, France Charles Kushner also wrote a letter It claims that “gestures aimed at risking extremists, fuel violence and Jewish lives in France towards perception of the Palestinian state.” Kushner was summoned by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and represented by his lieutenant in his absence.
Such an angry response “indicating the importance of symbols,” says Pascal Boniface, director of the Paris-based Institute for International Strategic Relations. “There is a kind of competition for time between diplomatic paths. The two-state solution returns to the centre of the debate, with the ground situation (Gaza) making the solution a little more complicated or impossible every day for these two states.”
Boniface said some supporters of the two states’ solutions expressed disappointment at the leader’s decision to wait for official recognition of the Palestinian state until September, as they “fear the recognition will come when Gaza becomes a further cemetery.”
I call on Israel to stop the Gaza attack
Macron and other international leaders urged them to stop attacks on Israeli-besieged territory. Hungry has been declared In Gaza city.
“The occupation of Gaza, forced banishment of Palestinians, and reductions to starvation will never bring victory to Israel,” Macron wrote in a letter to Netanyahu. “On the contrary, they will strengthen the isolation of your country, fuel those who have found anti-Semitism, and put Jewish communities around the world at risk.”
Over 140 countries already recognize the almost symbolic movement of the Palestinian state.
“The world will be the same as the next day,” said Muhammad Shehada, a political analyst in Gaza and visiting fellow fellow at the Council of Europe’s think tanks for diplomatic relations.
Still, it puts diplomatic pressure on Israel, he stressed. The heavyweight Western countries, which show strong support for the two state solutions, “shatter the illusion that Netanyahu is trying to sell to Israelis and crush it into the international community where mass population relocation or depopulation is the only way to solve the Palestinian problem,” Shehada said.
Enhance the medium Palestinians
French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrotto argued that this week. Diplomatic efforts led by France and Saudi Arabia It also only came to the results based on a very important condemnation of Hamas’ attacks by all 22 members of the Arab League.
At a July meeting co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, the Arab League state agreed to the New York Declaration that “Hamas must end its control in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian authorities.”
Shehada expects to move Strengthening the medium-sized Palestinian camps; Includes demonstrating to the public that Palestinian authority is focused on negotiations.
He said that “creating a diplomatic track that provides Palestinians with an alternative to violence and sending a message that diplomatic involvement will be rewarded and lead to a Palestinian state could undermine Hamas’ most violent leadership.
Palestinian authorities want to establish independent states in the regions captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War, in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Hamas expelled the PA when it seized Gaza in 2007, a year after winning the Palestinian parliamentary elections. After Hamas acquired Gaza, the PA was left to manage a semi-automatic pocket on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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