The French political class reacted in various ways this Thursday, April 10 to the announcement of President Emmanuel Macron that France could recognize a Palestinian State, the extreme right that considers it “premature” when the center and the left welcome.
If this recognition “comes in a framework that allows countries that do not recognize Israel to do so and other countries that do not recognize Palestine or the Palestinian State to do so, it is a good process,” said socialist president François Hollande in RTL.
However, he recalled that it was “purely declaratory.” “What matters is, of course, that one day there can be a Palestinian state, but that Hamas is not in this Palestinian state and that Gaza can be an area where gazaouis can live, simply,” he developed.
“Finally” for LFI, a “good idea” says the modem
“Finally. After almost two years of genocide in Gaza, France finally plans to recognize the state of Palestine,” tweeted the head of deputies Lfi Mathilde Panot, remembering that “147 countries have already done so” and stating that “this gesture, started with high fight” translates “into action.” “Finally !!!!” He also greets the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure on Network X.
Referring to “a good idea”, the president of the modem of deputies Marc Fesneau, also insisted in the principle of “a reciprocity clause.” “The parties must recognize each other: the Palestinians have the right to a State, the Israelis are entitled to a State, the two have the right to live in security in a democratic regime,” TF1 added.
He was concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishes “to evacuate the idea that Palestinians have the right to a state, even if that means occupying the entire territory.”
“Premature” for RN, not the time for LR
On the contrary, the vice president of the national concentration, Sébastien Chenu, judged in LCI any “premature” recognition.
If the distant part is “favorable to two states,” the Palestinian State is today “backed by Hamas”. “He is sending a signal:” To terrorism and we will recognize the rights, “he swept, believing that the French president put” the car against the oxen, probably for interior reasons, to send signals. “
For his part, President Les Répudicins du Senate Gérard Larcher also says that it is also favorable to “the solution of two states”, this Thursday in Europe 1. But “are the conditions meet so that we are later going in recognition that is essential in the long term of the reality of a Palestine state? No,” he said.
“We still have hostages in the Gaza Strip, which must be required without weakness to return to Israel. We still have Hamas attacks against Israel,” said the president of the Senate.
Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday that France could recognize a Palestinian state “in June” on the occasion of a conference that will coincide with Saudi Arabia in the United Nations in New York and that, according to him, it is also due to Israel’s recognition for several countries.
The conference aims to create a Palestinian state. The calls to a “solution to two states”, Palestinian together with that of Israel, have intensified since the beginning of the war in Gaza, caused by the attack against Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Source: BFM TV
