Asked about the war between Israel and Hamas during the debate organized by BFMTV on Monday, the president of the RN said he was “disgusted to see political movements on the left and the far left which consider Hamas as a resistance movement” .
Should we recognize a Palestinian state or not? The question agitates French diplomats all the more since Norway, Ireland, and Spain took the step last week. The question therefore logically arose in the debate organized Monday evening on BFMTV between the main leaders of the list in the European elections. While the left-wing candidates were all in favor of such an initiative in the midst of the war between Israel and Hamas, the president of the RN displayed an opposite position.
If Jordan Bardella “embraces the historical position of France which is that of recognizing two States”he judged such a diplomatic act “impossible (…) in the current state of things.” “Recognizing a Palestinian state today would amount to legitimizing Hamas, the Islamist Hamas, which committed atrocities on October 7,” thundered the 28-year-old MEP. Who is “disgusted to see that we have political movements in France, and a whole movement on the left and the far left which consider Hamas not as an Islamist terrorist movement, but as a resistance movement.”
“Conditions not met” for Hayer
Directly targeting La France Insoumise, Marine Le Pen’s successor at the head of the RN judged that the “condemnation of Islamist terrorism in our country and abroad is no longer unanimous.” Her Macronist competitor Valérie Hayer also considered that “the conditions were not met”while recalling his desire to arrive “to a two-state solution”. The head of the Renaissance list then took the opposite view of number two on his list Bernard Guetta, who estimated on Monday that the gesture would be “a factor in accelerating a resumption of negotiations”.