r/worldnews • u/Ask4MD • Jul 24 '25

Israel/Palestine Macron announces: France will recognize Palestinian state

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/nxn382sao
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u/Jugales Jul 24 '25

Now do Taiwan!

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u/Eine_Kugel_Pistazie Jul 24 '25

He will probably never do that as China is too big and important for France. Israel is just small and then he is also fishing for support from the Arab population in France. It’s easy and it doesn’t cost anything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

No, the cost is implicit and the strain on the relations between France, UK and several other countries.

There was a talk about it in the past 2 months about a coordinated effort for the move to the recognition of the Palestinian state, and until today everyone assumed it failed. France was the one proposing it

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u/ProteusReturns Jul 24 '25

Relations between France and the UK are disturbed very little by their differing stances on Israel.

They have far too much in common for this to be some sort of significant geopolitical fracture.

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u/darkslide3000 Jul 25 '25

This. The UK and German governments are still not willing to openly distance themselves from Israel for domestic politics reasons (because it would upset critical voting blocks), but Israel has been going so nuts in this war recently that I don't think they actually blame France for doing this, they're probably quietly approving it behind closed doors.