PRESIDENT MACRON SAYS HIMSELF “READY” TO RECOGNIZE PALESTINE“BUT NOT EMOTIONALLY

USPA NEWS - It has been three days since demonstrations, of 4,500 people yesterday, 1,000 today, Pro-Palestinian, have taken place in France and especially in Paris, starting from Place Saint Augustin in the direction of the Israeli embassy. The first demonstration of the week began this Monday, May 27, with 10,000 people who protested, in Paris, as in other cities in France, in support of the Palestinians after the Israeli strike which killed at least 45 people in a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip the day before. President Macron spoke on the telephone today and reassured him of "France's support and asked President Mahmoud Abbas to "implement the essential reforms" with "the perspective of recognition of the State of Palestine."French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated yesterday that the recognition of a Palestinian state was not a “taboo subject” but that it must intervene “at a useful moment” and not under the influence of “emotion”, “I will not make an acknowledgment of emotion.” Germany where he was on an official three-day trip.

These demonstrations have been repeated to express anger and demand “Free GAZA”, since on May 27, the attack perpetrated by Israel against the Barkasat displaced persons camp in Rafah took place, killing civilians, in the south of the Gaza strip.
This strike killed at least 45 people, the majority of them women and children, according to the Gazan authorities, and shocked the whole world.
Protesters chant “Gaza! Gaza! Paris is with you!” “Children of Gaza, children of Palestine! It’s humanity that we’re murdering!” “We are all Palestinians”



the demonstrators chanted “We are all children of Gaza”, and “Israel is murdering the children of Palestine”, while erecting the flag of Palestine alongside which were Members of the French Parliament. the demonstrators chanted “We are all children of Gaza”, and “Israel is murdering the children of Palestine”, while erecting the Palestinian flag alongside which there were deputies. Among the political groups present at these gatherings was the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP). Flags of LFI, the far-left NPA party, the Force Ouvrière union and the Palestinian Revolution organization also flew in the middle of the crowd.

PRESIDENT MACRON CALLED HIS PALESTINIAN COUNTERPART MAHMOUD ABBAS ON THE TELEPHONE
President Macron spoke on the telephone today and reassured him of "France's support and asked President Mahmoud Abbas to "implement the essential reforms" with "the perspective of recognition of the State of Palestine."

French President Macron wished, today, "to mark France's commitment to working to build with its European and Arab partners a common vision of peace which offers security guarantees for Palestinians and Israelis."

During this exchange, the President of the French Republic recalled "wanting the prospect of recognition of the State of Palestine in a useful dynamic." In France, the question surrounding Palestine continues to electrify the political debate. This Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron "recalled France's support for a reformed and strengthened Palestinian Authority, capable of exercising its responsibilities throughout the Palestinian Territories. Source: Elysee, French Presidency


French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated yesterday that the recognition of a Palestinian state was not a “taboo subject” but that it must intervene “at a useful moment” and not under the influence of “emotion”, “I will not make an acknowledgment of emotion.” Germany where he was on an official three-day trip. During the joint press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholtz “There is no taboo for France and I am totally ready to recognize a Palestinian state but... I consider that this recognition must come at a useful time”, he replied to journalists.

NORWAY, SPAIN & IRELAND HAVE RECOGNIZED THE STATE OF PALESTINE
In the meantime, yesterday, Tuesday 28 May, Spain, Norway and Ireland announced their recognition of the Palestinian State.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said "it is a necessity" to "achieve peace." This decision is not taken “against anyone, and even less against Israel,” he added.
His Irish counterpart Simon Harris, for his part, estimated that it was a matter of "keeping hope alive" in the Middle East, where the war provoked by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel is the deadliest in more than 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I once again call on Prime Minister (Israeli Benjamin) Netanyahu to listen to the world and stop the humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip, he added.
On the Norwegian side, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said it was "regrettable that the Israeli government shows no sign of constructive engagement."
Source: El Pais, Corse Matin