President Macron Is Playing With Fire by Recognising Palestine

A French leader is appeasing fascists again. This time it’s Emmanuel Macron and the beneficiary of his pusillanimity is Hamas. The president has announced that France will unilaterally recognise a State of Palestine in September. That will be on the cusp of the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October pogrom when it sent a 6,000-strong army to rape and butcher the Jews of southern Israel. Is that the reward for Jew-murder now, Monsieur Macron – nationhood?

Macron made his imperious statement in a post on X – where else? ‘I have decided that France will recognise the State of Palestine’, he said, with more than a hint of Napoleonic hubris. Other nations have recognised Palestine before – 147 in total, including Ireland, Spain and Norway in a noisy joint virtue-signal last May. But France is hands down the most significant Western player to recognise Palestine. Which means this is a gesture likely to have far-reaching consequences.

Anyone who doubts that Macron’s statement brought joy to the Jew-killers of Hamas need only look at their response. The nutters are thrilled. Macron’s recognition of Palestine is a ‘positive step in the right direction’, they said. And all other nations should ‘follow France’s example’. So even though Macron’s statement made a nod to the need to ‘demilitarise’ Hamas, still Hamas is delighted. It knows, even if Macron does not, that French recognition of Palestine less than two years after that barbarous pogrom adds up to an implicit acceptance that mass murder works; that killing Jews has benefits.

That’s the strange thing about France’s recognition – it is both meaningless and potentially lethal. It’s meaningless because it is not going to magic up a state. It is an imperial delusion to think that just because the President of France says ‘Let there be Palestine’ a functioning Palestinian entity will emerge. Palestinian officialdom is in a state of alarming disorder. The West Bank is ruled by a bent regime led by Mahmoud Abbas, currently in the 20th year of his four-year term as president of Palestine. And we all know what has become of Gaza following its government’s declaration of fascistic war against Israel.