{"id":136187,"date":"2025-05-27T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136187\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:55:09","slug":"france-lobbying-europeans-uk-to-recognize-palestinian-statehood-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136187\/","title":{"rendered":"France lobbying Europeans, UK to recognize Palestinian statehood \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, Macron said that time had come to \u201cmove toward recognition\u201d and participate in a collective process in which both Israel and a Palestinian state were recognized.<\/p>\n

But that never happened.<\/p>\n

Now, with the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deepening, formally recognizing a Palestinian state would look more like a reprimand, as opposed to step toward peace, explained Michel Duclos, a former ambassador to Syria and fellow at the Institut Montaigne.<\/p>\n

\"\"More 140 UN member states recognize the Palestine state, with Spain, Ireland and Norway joining the ranks last year. | Chalinee Thirasupa\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would constitute a condemnation of Israel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, Duclos said European recognition of the Palestinian territories could \u201cencourage Arab nations to define their conditions for normalizing relations with Israel.\u201d The French diplomat quoted above said France was hoping Middle Eastern states would still take \u201csteps\u201d toward normalization at the conference, which is slated to run June 17 to 20 in New York. <\/p>\n

In the end, stopping the violence in the Gaza Strip and to a lesser extent, the West Bank, depends on what the United States, Israel\u2019s closest ally and largest military backer, decides to do. And while European officials note a shift in U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s attitude toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, there\u2019s little sign yet Washington is ready to recognize a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may all be a damp squib,\u201d said the European official.<\/p>\n

Esther Webber contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In April, Macron said that time had come to \u201cmove toward recognition\u201d and participate in a collective process…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[331,1789,6505,6659,32,321,34,2000,299,36,678,837,11582,43,5769,839,2597,1115,1814,2663,6506,104,6500,3053,15,49,771,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-136187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-egypt","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-lobbying","21":"tag-macron","22":"tag-medicines","23":"tag-middle-east","24":"tag-military","25":"tag-norway","26":"tag-palestine","27":"tag-sanctions","28":"tag-saudi-arabia","29":"tag-spain","30":"tag-syria","31":"tag-the-netherlands","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-war","35":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114580378491220962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}