Macron calls recognising Palestinian state a 'moral duty', says Europe must harden stance on Israel

c/world · u/solo@slrpnk.net · 279 points

Speaking at a press conference in Singapore ahead of the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said that recognising a Palestinian state was a moral duty as well as a political necessity. Macron called on European countries to harden their stance on Israel unless the humanitarian crisis in the ravaged Gaza Strip improved.

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u/eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 points

i suspec that, so long as it's publicly stated, it'll work

u/Buffalox@lemmy.world · 6 points

Thanks for the info, I only went back as long as I could remember, but it's nice to get some historical facts on the issue. 👍

u/solo@slrpnk.net · 28 points

I would say, it's much longer than 40 years.

This is what the United Nations, use as starting point:

1917 – 1947: British mandate

Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, [...]

u/Buffalox@lemmy.world · 37 points

It's been a moral duty for about 40 years.

u/Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 19 points

"We are going to toughen our stance on our genocidal colony as soon as all the Palestinians have been eliminated"

u/decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 points

He is trying to get his popularity up. Whatever at least it's moving things in the right direction.

u/rumimevlevi@lemmings.world · 6 points

Do he really think that we don't know that it's to hide complicity with the genocide?

u/EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 5 points

Better not say that too loud, or Israel will start annexing West Bank, which they totally weren't going to do regardless.

u/timewarp@lemmy.world · -7 points

And to think all it took for him to see the genocide was a slapping by his sugarmommy.