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Granting Palestinian Statehood Does Not Make Moral or Practical Sense

(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Hamas has warmly welcomed French President Macron's announcement that France was planning to recognize a state of Palestine. To put this in perspective, I suggest that Mr. Macron watch some of the footage of Oct. 7. Perhaps the scene in which Ahmed Fozi Wadia, a Hamas paraglider, strolled into the home of the Taasa family in Netiv Ha'asara inside Israel and shot 17-year-old Or six times in the head. He then threw a grenade into the saferoom where the rest of the family was hiding. Or's father, Gil, a fireman, threw himself onto the grenade to protect his other children and was killed instantly. Two of his sons were injured in the blast, with 8-year-old Shay's eye blown out of its socket. Well done, Mr. Macron. These are the people who are slapping you on the back. Unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state stands out as the most myopic, destructive and treacherous foreign policy to have been dreamed up by our elites in recent memory. Granting statehood to one of the most corrupt, brutal, inept and intransigent regimes on Earth - which has something of a taste for terrorism, given that it hands out financial rewards to those convicted of it - in order to pressure a democratic ally out of winning against the jihadis, makes no sense either for stability in the Middle East or our own national security.
2025-07-27 00:00:00
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