Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemns French President Emmanuel Macron’s “absurd and unserious” decision that Paris will formally recognize a Palestinian state in September.
“The French president’s pretension to conjure a permanent settlement in our land with a mere breath is absurd and unserious,” writes Sa’ar in a Hebrew-language statement on X.
Sa’ar argues that “A Palestinian state would be a Hamas state — just as the [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip twenty years ago led to Hamas’s takeover there.”
Macron “cannot provide security for Israel,” Sa’ar adds, saying that “Israel’s attempt to base its security on Palestinian promises to fight terror failed entirely in the Oslo process,” referring to the 1990s peace initiative between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that aimed for a two-state solution.
“Israel will no longer gamble with its security and its future,” he concludes.
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