Source: The American Conservative
by Andrew Day
“After the French President Emmanuel Macron announced last Thursday that France will recognize the state of Palestine, several U.S. and Israeli leaders dismissed the move as merely symbolic. … ‘What he says doesn’t matter,’ Trump told reporters Friday. ‘That statement doesn’t carry any weight.’ But if Macron’s announcement ‘doesn’t matter,’ then why have opponents of Palestinian self-determination reacted to it with such venom? In truth, recognition does matter in international affairs, which is why Israel and its Western backers, unlike most nations, have steadfastly refused to acknowledge Palestinian statehood in the first place.” (07/30/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-macrons-palestine-gambit-matters/