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Emmanuel Macron, the Merchant of Unreal Palestine

(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - Emmanuel Macron is a dreamer who mistakes his wishes for reality. In the jungles of the Middle East, Islamist terrorists couldn't care less about international law, democratic values, or philosophical norms. Hamas prefers to sow terror and barbarism; it's its ideology. Macron should have demanded that Hamas release all hostages unconditionally and as a matter of priority and dismantle its military arsenal. Macron chose to go it alone, rush events, dictate the agenda and final status without any prior negotiations, and punish Israel if it fails to respect recognition of the Palestinian state. As a result, he foolishly delayed normalization with the Arab countries. Of course, we want to stop the war and end the bloodshed, but what assurance does the French president give us other than fine words and moral lessons? The experience of the painful past teaches us that all Palestinian leaders refuse any compromise and are incapable of leading an independent state living in peace alongside the Jewish state. Since Oct. 7, 2023, all polls have shown that the overwhelming majority of Israelis refuse any dialogue with Palestinian leaders until the day their security along all borders and within the country is absolute. The determination to unilaterally proclaim the Palestinian state is therefore counterproductive and dangerous for the future of the Jewish state. The future of peace with the Arabs is a noble wish. Israelis are not warriors; they defend themselves and sacrifice their children precisely to achieve security and peace. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
2025-09-28 00:00:00
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