Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron following the latter’s announcement that he intends to recognize a Palestinian state and a meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to discuss said recognition.
The Prime Minister’s Office wrote in a statement that “during the conversation, the Prime Minister expressed fierce opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state and said that this would constitute a huge prize for terrorism.”
The statement added: “The Prime Minister pointed out to the President of France that to this day, no Palestinian body – including those of the Palestinian Authority – has condemned the October 7th massacre; and that in the Palestinian Authority, the children are educated to destroy Israel, and the murderers of Jews are awarded monetary prizes.
“The Prime Minister told the President of France that a Palestinian state that would be established just a few minutes from Israeli cities would become an Iranian stronghold of terrorism; that the vast majority of the Israeli public opposes that categorically – and that this has also been the Prime Minister’s consistent and longstanding policy.”
France’s position may be good for Macron but is wrong for Israel. Even after the October 7 massacre in Israel Macron still lives in a world of delusion and self-serving political ideals. He has no understanding of, or concern for the true intention of the mental state of the PA Arabs – that is, to kill Jews and destroy Israel.