{"id":585,"date":"2025-07-25T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=585"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:02:54","slug":"france-defends-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"France defends move to recognise Palestinian state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olamide, Wizkid - Kai! 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By recognising Palestine, France goes against that terrorist organisation,\u201d Barrot said on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its decision, France was \u201cbacking the side of peace against the side of war\u201d, Barrot added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domestic reactions ranged from praise on the left, condemnation on the right and awkward silence in the ranks of the government itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leader of the far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, said the announcement was \u201crushed\u201d and afforded Hamas \u201cunexpected institutional and international legitimacy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marine Le Pen, the RN\u2019s parliamentary leader, said the French move amounted to \u201crecognising a Hamas state and therefore a terrorist state\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side of the political spectrum, Jean-Luc Melenchon, boss of the far-left France Unbowed party, called Macron\u2019s announcement \u201ca moral victory\u201d, although he deplored that it did not take effect immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By September, Gaza could be a \u201cgraveyard\u201d, Melenchon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, a right winger whose relationship with Macron is tense, declined on Friday to give his opinion, saying he was currently busy with an unrelated \u201cserious topic\u201d linked to the \u201csecurity of French people on holiday\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the vice president of his Les Republicains party, Francois-Xavier Bellamy, blasted the decision as possibly \u201ccounter-productive\u201d or, at best, \u201cpointless\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move risked \u201cendangering Israeli civilians\u201d as well as \u201cPalestinian civilians who are victims of Hamas\u2019s barbarism\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellamy said that Macron\u2019s move was a departure from the president\u2019s previously set conditions for recognition of Palestine, which included a Hamas de-militarisation, the movement\u2019s exclusion from any future government, the liberation of all Israeli hostages in Gaza and the recognition of Israel by several Arab&nbsp;states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNone of them have been met,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among people reacting to the news in the streets of Paris was Julien Deoux, a developer, who said it had been \u201cabout time\u201d that France recognised Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve been talking about two-state solutions for decades but you don\u2019t recognise one of the two states, it\u2019s a bit difficult,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Gil, a 79-year-old pensioner who gave only his first name, said he felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by his president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a Frenchman, I\u2019m ashamed to see that tomorrow Hamas could come to power in the territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While France would be the most significant European country to recognise a Palestinian state, others have hinted they could do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he would hold a call on Friday with counterparts in Germany and France on efforts to stop the fighting, adding that a ceasefire would \u201cput us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany, meanwhile, said on Friday it had no plans to recognise a Palestinian state \u201cin the short term\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia all announced recognition following the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, along with several other non-European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once France follows through on its announcement, a total of at least 142 countries will have recognised Palestinian statehood. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/07\/france-defends-move-to-recognise-palestinian-state\/\">(Vanguard)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas. 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