Macron lays out terms for Palestinian state in Hebrew tweet

France’s president defends plan to recognize unilateral Palestinian statehood, insisting Hamas be disarmed and excluded from the government while demanding new Palestinian state recognize Israel.

By World Israel News Staff

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out his government’s vision of Palestinian statehood in a Hebrew tweet Sunday while castigating the Hamas terror organization.

In three parallel posts Sunday afternoon, Macron responded to the hostage videos and photographs released by Hamas recently, penning tweets in Hebrew, English, and French.

“An abject cruelty, an unlimited inhumanity: this is what Hamas embodies,” Macron wrote. “The unbearable images showing Israeli hostages held in Gaza remind us of this horror.”

“We think with deep emotion of Evyatar David, Rom Braslavski, all the hostages still held captive, as well as their families and loved ones who have been plunged into hell for more than 660 days.”

Last Thursday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group released footage of 21-year-old Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski lying down somewhere in the Gaza Strip.

A day later, Hamas released a five-minute hostage video of another hostage, Evyatar David, digging a ditch inside a tunnel in Gaza.

“France’s absolute priority and imperative is the immediate release of all hostages,” Macron wrote, just two days after video footage of the French president conflating Israeli hostages with jailed Arab terrorists was published.

Later in his post Sunday, Macron laid out France’s policies vis-a-vis the war in Gaza and Palestinian statehood, which Paris has vowed to recognize next month even without a peace deal between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

“We continue to act tirelessly toward this goal,” Macron tweeted, “to obtain their unconditional release, to promptly restore the ceasefire and to enable the massive delivery of humanitarian aid, still blocked at Gaza’s borders.”

Macron reiterated his staunch support for Palestinian statehood, while adding conditions for French backing, including exclusion of Hamas from power and recognition of Israel.

“This effort must be accompanied by a political solution for the day after. That solution is the two-state solution, with Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace. It is the only possible path toward a future where justice, security, and dignity are guaranteed for all the peoples of the region.”

“Let there be no ambiguity: Within this political vision that we uphold, we demand the total demilitarization of Hamas, its complete exclusion from any form of governance, and recognition of Israel by the State of Palestine.”