Benjamin Netanyahu slams France’s Macron for plans to recognise Palestine as sovereign state

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunda lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron for his plans to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state during a UN conference in New York in June.The prime minister’s comments echoed those of his son, Yair Netanyahu, who also condemned Macron for expressing hope that his move would trigger a reciprocal recognition of Israel by Arab countries.President Macron is gravely mistaken in continuing to promote the idea of a Palestinian state in the heart of our land — a state whose sole aspiration is the destruction of Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement.“To this day, not a single figure in Hamas or the Palestinian Authority has condemned the horrors of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu said, referring to the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel.Netanyahu described this as “a silence that reveals their true attitude toward the Jewish state.”We will not endanger our existence over illusions detached from reality, and we will not accept moral lectures about establishing a Palestinian state that would threaten Israel’s survival – especially not from those who oppose granting independence to Corsica, New Caledonia, French Guiana, and other territories, whose independence would pose no threat to France whatsoever.”