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Macron Fights for a Palestinian State
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Amb. Freddy Eytan - The process adopted by President Emmanuel Macron and French parliamentarians to end hostilities in the Middle East is unsuitable and unfeasible after the terrible event of Oct. 7, 2023. Since that horrific pogrom, the overwhelming majority of Israelis are fiercely opposed to the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Israelis reject diktat, unnecessary risks, and suicide. The cancellation of the visit to Israel by 17 French parliamentarians exposes trickery. Their intentions were not to engage in dialogue, but to provoke and sow discord, and to demonstrate violently against Israeli policy. We deplore the role of the French Consulate General in Jerusalem, which for several years has transformed itself into a veritable "diplomatic representation to Palestine." Without prior and serious consultation with the Israeli government, Macron launched a peace plan that clearly defines the final status before even being able to negotiate all the issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict. How dare Macron imagine the creation of a Palestinian state without a single legal-political attribute? Who will lead this new state? Hamas, which already has a strong presence in Jenin and Hebron? Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, 89 years old? How can we not first condemn a Palestinian leader who continues to support incitement to hatred and terrorist acts by paying salaries to the perpetrators and their families? How can we not expose human rights violations, torture in Palestinian prisons, corruption, and the lack of transparency within Abbas's government? It is clear that the creation of a Palestinian state is becoming a dangerous solution and an existential threat to Israel. It will encourage Islamist organizations to continue terrorist and antisemitic acts in Europe, particularly in France. Macron demonstrates France's disconnection from the realities of the Middle East. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.