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Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state

www.aljazeera.com

‘We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,’ French president says.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a United Nations conference in New York in June aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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- France was too busy arming Israel 80 years ago
  For the first two decades after independence, Israel’s primary foreign ally was France, which supplied almost all of its major weapons including planes, tanks and ships as well as building the nuclear plant from which it developed atomic weapons.
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer
- Maybe he's doing it to displease someone...
Finally someone in power sides with these genocide victims. There won't be any of them left to populate this state, but it's a start I guess.
- Good move imo. If everybody did this, the next time Hamas decides to cross with hundreds of its soldiers the border to the neighboring state to slaughter and kidnap civillians the optic will be shifted from "it was just some terrorists" to "it was the army of the palestinian state".
  On the ground it will change nothing though. Israel would still go in to disarm/dismantle the neighboring terrorist organisation (now called an army of the palestinian state). Innocent palestinians will still suffer. So will innocent Israelis.
  
  The Palestinian state has a right to defend itself against occupation as declared multiple times by UN resolutions and under international law. Over half of the casualties where military targets and we know for a fact that a large portion of civilians killed were killed under the Hannibal directive. That's a hell of a lot better ratio than the IDF.
  Get lost hasbara.
  
  Adi Callai has written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
  
  You are delusional, do you not understand this is a genocide of palestinians?
  You talk like genocide will teach a group of people a lesson and it is pathetic and exceedingly small minded.
  
  Cross what border lmao? It's all Palestinian land. It's actually completely just for people to escape a concentration camp and defend themselves from fascist invaders/thieves.
Good.
Until now his stance was to say that supporting Palestine is antisemitic.
I'm sure he's saying that in good faith. /s
- Yeah, fuck him for taking the right stance.
  
  I think that person is mad he didnt do it sooner.
  
  Yeah, if he's only motivated by bad reasons, fuck him.
  He can do something that is ultimately better, and still be doing it for reasons wrong enough to be criticised. I don't understand the point of defending an immoral megalomaniac just because he's trying at the last second to look like he's on the good side after fighting for the bad one for a long time.
- If could be he's fishing for bids. We need to find one of those auctioneer barkers to get this going and see if Israel or the rest of the worlds human rights supports can pay more. Because evidently everything in the western world is for sale. Shall we start the bidding with 100?
Thank you Mr. Macaroni for saying you could maybe, in the future, say something that should have been done decades ago sometime in the future, maybe.
So right now its not right, but something over the next few months will change that?
He's threatening to do something largely symbolic.
Cool, but changes nothing.
Cool story. Too bad France also recognized Algeria, Libya, Mali, etc....

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