Posted on 11/12/2014 10:15:14 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
French lawmakers will vote on November 28 on a proposal by the Socialist Party urging the government to recognise Palestine as a state, a parliamentary source said Wednesday.
The non-binding but highly symbolic vote would follow a similar vote in the British parliament and after Sweden announced it formally recognised the state of Palestine.
A draft of the proposal states that the lower house National Assembly "invites the French government to use the recognition of the state of Palestine as an instrument to gain a definitive resolution of the conflict".
France will "obviously at a certain moment recognise the Palestinian state," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told AFP on Saturday.
"The question is when and how? Because this recognition must be useful for efforts to break the deadlock and contribute to a final resolution of the conflict," added Fabius.
British lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on October 13 in favour of a non-binding motion to "recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution".
Sweden announced on October 30 it officially recognised the state of Palestinian, a move criticised by Israel and the United States.
The Palestinian Authority estimates that 134 countries have now recognised Palestine as a state, although the number is disputed and several recognitions by what are now European Union member states date back to the Soviet era.
On Saturday, Europe's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called for a Palestinian state sharing Jerusalem as its capital with Israel.
Let them be charged with declarations of war with the first missile / terrorist assault!
The French have this perverted ideology that permits and celebrates pissing anywhere, everywhere and on anything openly and in public.
France appears to be a lost cause. Satan and his IslamoNazis are taking the place over, and rapidly too ...
Any remaining Christians and Jews should get out ASAP.
(France is free to “recognize” any imaginary fake “country” or “people” it wishes. Who gives a dammmn? And, as Hillary so famously says, “what the hell difference does it make, anyway?”
So we learn snails have hallucinogenic properties...
seeing things that aren’t there...
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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A shame the Vélodrome d'Hiver is no longer available, an appropriate place for the French to discuss the Jewish issue.
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