France gets into the car and recognizes the state of Palestine before UN countries. Within the framework of the United Nations General Assembly, which officially begins this Tuesday, and before the look of world leaders, the President of the Republic, has officially made recognition. “The time for peace has come”he said. At the time Macron has declared recognition, the room has risen between applause.
“This recognition is to affirm that the Palestinian people are a town that never say goodbye to anything, such as Mahmud Darwish (in allusion to the Palestinian poet), A town with solid historical roots and with dignity. ” “This recognition of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people does not remove anything from the rights of the people of Israel, which France supported from day one,” Macron recalled.
The president also has asserted that “it is a defeat for Hamas, as for all those who foster anti -Semitism and feed the anti -ionist obsessions and that they want the destruction of the state of Israel,” he said.
The step taken by France is very important for several reasons: France have the largest Jewish community in Europe, He has been one of Israel’s most faithful allies and has a permanent seat (and therefore veto right) in the UN Security Council, in addition to being one of the main economies on the planet.
In any case, Macron has conditioned the opening of an embassy in Palestine to the “liberation of hostages” since a high fire agreement is reached. “Nothing will be possible without the Israeli authorities fully assuming our renewed ambition to finally achieve a solution of two states,” he said. Once achieved, a reconstruction plan for the Palestinian authority in “a renewed framework,” Macron explained, which has offered France’s collaboration for an international stabilization mission and to form and finance the Palestinian security forces.
The decision has been a battle for Macron, which has dragged a dozen countries more to embark on the same path, and those that this Monday has cited one by one: “by Spain, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia.” In total, “142 countries opt for peace” and not war, although, said the French president to finish his speech, after remembering the murder of Isaac Rabin, one of the architects of the OSLO agreements of 1993, “Peace is much more demanding and difficult than all wars, but the time has come.”
