{"id":403332,"date":"2025-09-06T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:52:13","slug":"france-hits-back-at-us-over-gaza-accusations-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403332\/","title":{"rendered":"France hits back at US over Gaza accusations \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio <a href=\"http:\/\/The minute, the day that the French announced their thing, their \u2013 the thing they did, that day Hamas walked away from the negotiating table\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> earlier this week that French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood had blown any chance of successful ceasefire talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group, echoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/frances-recognition-of-palestinian-state-scuttled-gaza-ceasefire-talks-rubio-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar accusations<\/a> made last month. Hamas walked away from negotiations \u201cthe minute, the day that the French announced their thing,\u201d according to Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>The French Response account\u2019s messages highlight the time stamps of social media posts by Macron and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to argue that \u201cnegotiations had already collapsed before France\u2019s announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also pointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/un-high-level-international-conference-new-york-declaration-29jul2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declaration<\/a> at a July United Nations conference, spearheaded by France and Saudi Arabia, which read that the \u201crecognition and realization of the State of Palestine are an essential and indispensable component of the achievement of the two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it listed a message by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff announcing that the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/24\/us-gaza-ceasefire-talks-00474523\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/24\/us-gaza-ceasefire-talks-00474523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would pull out of ceasefire talks<\/a>, saying Hamas wasn\u2019t acting in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>Barrot\u2019s ministry is bolstering its capacity to detect disinformation through \u201cmonitoring hubs\u201d on social networks and created the \u201cautomated response account\u201d in order to \u201ccounter the spurious attacks targeted at us,\u201d the minister said in remarks published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/international\/video-desinformation-jean-noel-barrot-annonce-la-creation-d-un-compte-de-riposte-automatisee_VN-202509050494.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/international\/video-desinformation-jean-noel-barrot-annonce-la-creation-d-un-compte-de-riposte-automatisee_VN-202509050494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BFM TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-palestine-statehood-emmanuel-macron-middle-east-war-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> in July that France would recognize Palestinian statehood. The U.K., Canada, Australia and Belgium have since made similar announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rubio said earlier this week that French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood had blown any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[6505,13071,36,38,44400,837,1815,13302,2820,839,49,978,659,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-403332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-disinformation","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-french-politics","12":"tag-genocide","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-hamas-war","15":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","16":"tag-marco-rubio","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158865944300954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403332","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=403332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}