Defending Paris’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, an adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron blames Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, on the lack of a Palestinian state.
“Everyone for 40 years has been talking about the two-state solution,” says Ofer Bronchtein, Macron’s longtime special adviser on Israeli-Palestinian affairs, in a Hebrew-language radio interview with Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.
“It angers me that people say we encourage terror,” he says, noting that the Hamas attack happened even without a Palestinian state, and adding: “Perhaps because there was no Palestinian state, October 7 happened.”
“Had there been Palestinian sovereignty in Gaza on October 7 [2023]… October 7 wouldn’t have happened. Sovereignty is responsibility,” he says.
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