Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June
Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31913880
As everyone should. Macron is really showing some balls, as a rarity among leaders.
Macron is not showing some balls, you dont have to be a super genius to see the wind shift. The only reason he ever took side against Palestine until then is because he do not want to hurt his US masters.
Now that Trump is giving a big fuck you to the whole world and actively breaking his own economy it's not really surprising to see him trying to distance with the atrocities he has covered and actively defended for US interest.
It's always strategy instead of values in politics, isn't it? Makes me mad. In any case, I'm waiting on brutal genocide to end and hope for lady justice to "drain the swamp". Not economic drain to his pocket like tRump, mind you.
Macron is a POS.
This is only the start of his virtue signaling declarations with no intent to follow through to see if polls get good enough for him to re-trigger legislative elections.
He fired the national representation and triggered legislatives elections in 2024, hoping to gain a better majority but ended up losing to the left.
He wants to try again, but he had to wait 1 year (because constitution) and that wait period comes to an end... in June.
Macron has learned a lesson from Trump: reality doesn't matter. He's been denying real, established facts and lying like no president before him for a few years now.
Don't mistake him for a good guy, he's just doing a tiny bit better than actual fascists.
Ps: it's 2025, maybe we could stop using "having balls" as an expression of courage?
Noted. Also, scratch the balls comment
Easy to do after killing everyone there. Better late than never I guess
Gaza has been effectively obliterated, but the West Bank is still there, despite being under attack
If obliterating Gaza is rewarded with "normalization" then the obliteration of the West Bank is the next logical step. Sprinkled in with another invasion of Lebanon and expanding the invasion of Syria. After that Egypt and Jordan and then Iraq and Saudi Arabia and the Gukf states. Israels wants to expand into an empire of "greater Israel" allowing them to keep any gains by invasion, ethnic cleansing and genocide only encourages them to more.
Why'd it take him so long?
Gotta sell the last shell badge before condemning genocide.
He still wanted to appease the US. Recognizing Palestine makes them unhappy.
I also want to participate in a collective dynamic, which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognize Israel in turn, which many of them do not do," he added.
Is that controversial on here? Seems to me like the only way to stop the fighting long term. There can’t be peace when Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel same as there can’t be peace when Israel doesn’t recognize Palestine.
It makes sense to recognize Palestine in order to calm the problem and give peace a chance. But I really do not see a how palestinian statehood will play out with a good ending and how they might find a way forward to peace and prosperity. They are being used as a pawn by arab states. Every palestinian state will have the problem of militant religious extremist fighting for power as we saw with Hamas vs. Fatah in Gaza. So the scenarios look like in neighboring states to me: A brutal dictatorship that crushes disstent with a vast secret police like Egypt. A weak and disfunctional state where powerful militias are building a state inside the state like in Lebanon. Or civil war like in Syria. Those scenarios also will play out when militant Palestinians have their way and push Israel to the sea and deport or kill every jew in Israel and go back to 1948 borders.
Hamas is the result of an unwillingness by Israel to grant any sort of stable and peaceful life and dignity to Palestinians. Hamas embodies the realization that armed resistance is the only mean left to Palestinians.
Meanwhile demanding Palestinians to accept Israels genocide and ethnic cleansing as well as all the neighboring countries, as a prerequisite, is completely insane.
You cannot force everyone to like you by committing genocide. And demanding people to normalize without holding the perpetrator accountable is completely psychotic.
Imaging a court demanding the victims of domestic violence to first say they are friends with the husband that beat and raped them and welcome him back into the house as a part of the court proceedings, before the court talks about the rights of the victims to not be brutalized...
I don't know if it's controversial, really. More so, I think most people are ok with Israel and Palestine both existing as states, and those who support Palestine don't necessarily want Israel to cease to exist, they just want Israel to not try to blow up Palestine.
I realize he said only "many of them do not" and I haven't heard the statement in French so I can't speak beyond that context, but the statement as is gives me the vibe that he's suggesting something a little more than "some people." Maybe it's just the months of pro-Palestine protests getting repeatedly vilified by politicians and the media that's causing me to read into this more than was put out there.
In short, I'm just getting dirty vibes from the statement.
Mark Carney should follow suit.
