France and ten other countries will formally recognize Palestine at a UN summit in New York, amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The wave of international recognition of a Palestinian state continues, as France, along with 10 other countries, prepares to officially announce its recognition during a summit held on Monday at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss the future of the two-state solution in light of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.
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This anticipated recognition is the culmination of a months-long diplomatic process, led by Saudi Arabia and France, aimed at exerting increased pressure on Israel and linking the future of peace in the region to the establishment of a Palestinian state, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday reaffirmed his support for a peaceful two-state solution saying it is the “beginning of a political process and a peace and security plan for everybody.”
‘Political Solution’
In an interview with CBS News, Macron said that right after recognition, “we have a first phase, which is … the emergency phase, ceasefire, release of all hostages..and third, restoring the humanitarian roads and the stabilization of Gaza.”
Following that would be “a second package” involving “how to organize Gaza in terms of governance, security and reconstruction,” and a “third package” regarding “the perspective of the two states.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said he plans to formalize his country’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood at the U.N. next week in New York because “recognizing the Palestinian state today is the only way to provide a political solution to a situation which has to… pic.twitter.com/HR9FBb5Oja
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) September 21, 2025
“But recognizing the Palestinian state today is the only way to provide a political solution to a situation which has to stop,” he added.
Macron said the release of Israeli captives was a “clear condition” before France opens an embassy in Palestine and stressed the “dismantling of Hamas.”
He stated that “recognizing this right to have a Palestinian state through a diplomatic channel, this (is) just giving another channel and offering a political way and isolating Hamas.”
Macron Disagrees with UN Genocide Report
Asked whether France agreed with the recent conclusion by UN investigators that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Macron said he disagreed.
“No, we don’t qualify as a genocide what’s happening because it is not a political statement,” he stated. “This is the judges or the, and or the historians to qualify a genocide by a series of evidence and a clear jurisprudence and clear elements.”
CBS: Does France agree with the UN report that says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza?
Macron: We don’t qualify what is happening as genocide.
CBS: So you reject that report?
Macron: No. Clearly a lot of civilians are being killed and there is a project to displace people.… pic.twitter.com/NNQtoRMhSc
— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 21, 2025
Criticism of Israel
On the question of criticism of Israel being perceived as anti-semitism, Macron said “you cannot reject the existence of Israel”, adding “anti-Zionism is unacceptable and is antisemitism”.
“But it doesn’t mean that you are not allowed to be in disagreement with the Government of Israel,” he continued.
The French president further said, “I am very against any anti-Zionist speech, but I do endorse to be in disagreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu and some of his ministers on many topics. It doesn’t make me an antisemitic. Otherwise we are completely trapped in an impossible world.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner’s criticism of France is “unacceptable” for a diplomat. Kushner publicly accused Macron in August of taking insufficient action to combat antisemitism and linked the country’s foreign policy positions… pic.twitter.com/LOWYBlT7qU
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) September 21, 2025
Macron noted, “What I disagree with is the argument made by your ambassador and the Prime Minister of Israel, in another public letter, making a link between the recognition and antisemitism.”
Raising of Palestinian Flag
As France prepares to formally recognize the state of Palestine on Monday, 21 town halls across the country raised the Palestinian flag in defiance of a government ban, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The French Interior Ministry reported that 21 municipalities out of 34,875 had displayed the flag, despite clear instructions to prefects to prevent Palestinian flags from being hoisted on town halls and other public buildings, according to the broadcaster BFM TV.
VIDEO | After France recognized the State of Palestine, the municipality of Saint-Denis in Paris raised the Palestinian flag over its building. pic.twitter.com/JqMvsyIonk
— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) September 22, 2025
The towns where the flag was raised include Nantes, Stains, and Saint-Denis.
Other municipalities were reportedly planning to raise the flag later in the evening.
Support of 153 Countries
On Sunday, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Portugal announced their recognition of Palestine, bringing the total number of UN member states that have taken this step to 153 out of 193.
Eleven countries, including Malta, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, and Armenia, have also signaled plans to recognize the state of Palestine during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, where world leaders will convene in New York on Monday for high-level discussions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed not to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state and described the recognitions as a “threat to Israel’s existence,” according to Al Jazeera Arabic. He also reportedly called for confronting what he described as “false propaganda” at the United Nations, vowing to present the “truth” in his address to the General Assembly next Friday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told AFP on Friday that the world “should not feel intimidated by the risk of retaliation” from Israel.
“I don’t think we are talking about retaliation in relation to this or that. There has been a constant progress of the measures of the Israeli government in order to now completely destroy Gaza and have a creeping annexation in the West Bank,” he reportedly said.
‘Important Step’ – Hamas
In a statement on Sunday, Hamas said the announcement by several countries of their intention to recognize Palestinian statehood “is an important step in affirming the right of our Palestinian people to their land and holy sites, and to establish their independent state with Al-Quds (Jerusalem – PC) as its capital.”
“It is a deserved outcome of our people’s struggle, steadfastness, and sacrifices on the path to liberation and return,” the Resistance movement stated.
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Hamas, however, stressed that this important step “must be accompanied by practical measures that lead to an immediate halt to the brutal war of genocide against our Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, and to confront the annexation and Judaization projects in the West Bank and Al-Quds.”
The movement called on the international community, the United Nations and its institutions “to isolate this rogue entity, stop all forms of cooperation and coordination with it, escalate punitive measures against it, and work to bring its war criminal leaders to international courts and hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity.”
Starting on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military, with American support, launched a genocidal war against the people of Gaza. This campaign has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 65,000 Palestinians, with more than 165,000 wounded. The vast majority of the population has been displaced, and the destruction of infrastructure is unprecedented since World War II. Thousands of people are still missing.
(PC, Anadolu, AJA)
By being a denialist of Israel’s shockingly evil genocide against the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza, as well as being a supporter of Zionism (which revolves around the bullshit ideology of the genocidal Zionist entity’s right to exist; the right of Jews to steal away other people’s lands and properties; the right of Jews to commit massacres against non-Jews; and, the imbecilic belief, that Jews are the “chosen people” of God), Macron is therefore not showing the slightest bit of sincerity in his recognition of Palestine.
Macron, the genocide denialist, was saying that it’s the genocide historians who are to determine whether this qualifies as a genocide, or not. Was he not aware of the full recognition of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, by the International Association of Genocide Scholars? You cannot get any bigger than that, when it comes to an organization comprised of the world’s top genocide historians.