Recognizing a state of Palestine does not constitute “a gesture that promotes Hamas” but reminds the Israeli government that “we are not ready to accept the idea that there is a great Israel” of the “Mediterranean to the Jordan River,” said PS Olivier Faure head, this Monday, September 22.
“This flag is not the flag of Hamas, it is the flag of women and men who also have the right to freedom and self-determination,” said the deputy during a pavement ceremony of the Socialist City Council of Saint-Denis (Sena-Saint-Denis) with the Palestinian flag.
“A way to start the debate”
The state of Palestine that France must recognize Monday night before the UN “, is a state that remains virtual at this stage, but it is a way of involving the debate, of promoting another way,” he added, in support of President Emmanuel Macron, who has fought this fight for several months.
It is also a question, Olivier Faure “to remind Benjamin Netanyahu, who today is looking to make this solution impossible for the planned destruction of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank, that we are not ready to accept the idea that there is a great Israel that goes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jourdain River.”
The PS chief had asked the municipalities to raise the Palestinian flag to “tell the world that France is not only the President of the Republic, that France is behind this gesture and that we really want to take a solution to two states,” requested by the PS “since 1982,” he recalled.
“Hamas is not for the solution to two states,” he continued, insisting on a “symbolic” gesture that “has nothing to do with the statement made by this terrorist movement.”
Source: BFM TV
