Although a UN Conference must soon address the issue, the Council Representative Council of the Jewish institutions of France (CRIF) urged Thursday, June 5, Emmanuel Macron not to recognize a Palestinian State.
“Recognizing a Palestinian state today unilaterally and without any guarantee would be to reward Hamas and condemn peace,” CRIF said in a statement.
On May 30, the Head of State said that the recognition of a Palestinian State was “not only a moral duty, but a political requirement”, while listing several conditions to take the step.
CRIF considers that “France is responsible today for stating that conditions unfortunately are not fulfilled and that a Palestinian State cannot take place in June.”
A conference chaired by France in New York
“If the President of the Republic chose to maintain it, the recognition of a Palestinian State in the next few days would be a diplomatic error and a moral and political failure” adds the press release, who asks about the return of the “old demons of the” Arabic “of France” and speaks of “frontal opposition and assumed with Israel.”
Israel had strongly criticized Emmanuel Macron’s statements, accusing him of “crossed against the Jewish state.”
According to the CRIF, such recognition would be equivalent to “giving reasons to LFI (Insumise France, editor’s note) and agitators who reveal the Palestinian cause to attack French Jews.”
France will copy with Saudi Arabia, from June 17 to 20 in New York, an international conference to revive a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict called “to two states.”
Source: BFM TV
