Israel issued a sharp warning to Paris on Thursday, with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar telling his French counterpart that President Emmanuel Macron will not be welcome in Israel if France proceeds with its plan to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood this month.
In a phone call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, Sa’ar urged France to abandon the initiative, arguing that recognition of a Palestinian state outside of negotiations would destabilize the region and directly threaten Israel’s security interests.
“Israel seeks good relations with France, but France must respect Israel’s position when it comes to matters essential to its security and future,” Sa’ar said, according to a statement from his office. He added that any Macron visit “has no place” while France continues to advance recognition.
The warning follows a Kan report that Prime Minister Netanyahu had already conditioned a requested Macron visit on France shelving the recognition move — a demand the French leader reportedly rejected.
France is one of several European powers considering unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood, a step Israel has long opposed, insisting statehood must come through direct negotiations.
In addition to the dispute over Palestinian recognition, the two foreign ministers discussed the war in Gaza, the European snapback mechanism against Iran, developments in Lebanon, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, Sa’ar’s office said.
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Saying that Palestine should have state means the settlements there are illegal and that the refugees could return to Palestine. This comes from seeing a government that won’t negotiate, keeps on saying you killed us, and so we will kill you. This is the rationality, which is the politics. What happened on October 7 was not militarily, possibly Israel killed some military but not those from Gaza, they said and announced in the beginning, that they didn’t plane on killing civilian and did not think it could happen, they planned only on the army and did not expect to win. This is with the fact that both Egypt and Israel had kept them in a cage, like in a big prison, and it probably isn’t bigger then a prison, for over two decades. The way Israel is acting causes the French to say that Israel is discriminating the Palestinian as an ethnicity there, and they deserve to have their state back. Israel attacked first Jordan and they also antagonized them very forcefully in order to steal the land and ethnic arabs of that area.
They can return to this property
VA en enfer, Monsieur Macron