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Posted on 08/03/2025 9:12:05 AM PDT by george76
Hamas leaders are likely to be emboldened to carry on fighting by French and British proposals to recognize a Palestinian state in a break with Trump..
Frustrated by the deadlocked peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas, and seeing the chances of a two-state solution slipping away, several European countries led by the United Kingdom and France have now promised to recognize an independent Palestinian state to reaffirm their commitment to a permanent settlement.
However, far from encouraging a ceasefire in the conflict that has raged in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, European efforts will only encourage Hamas to continue fighting, prolonging the conflict that has devastated Gaza, Trump administration officials and experts warn.
“You’re rewarding Hamas if you do that. I don’t think they should be rewarded,” President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One earlier this week while returning from a trip to Scotland.
Trump also previously criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s July 24 vow to officially recognize a Palestinian state while downplaying the impact that European countries would have on the ongoing ceasefire and hostage negotiations, saying it wouldn't “change anything.”
“The president expressed his displeasure and his disagreement with the leaders of France, the United Kingdom and Canada,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing Thursday. “He feels as though that’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.”
France and Britain, erstwhile global powers that have declined in importance under the American security umbrella, nevertheless hold some weight in the Middle East, a region previously colonized by the two countries following the First World War. Both countries have long advocated for a two-state solution, a proposal that would see an independent Israel and Palestine coexist alongside one another as homelands for their respective peoples.
But the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, which is a designated terrorist group in the United States, has brutalized the notion that a peaceful coexistence is within immediate reach. Despite attempts by the United States to mediate a hostage rescue and ceasefire, negotiations between the sides have stalled, with no end to the conflict in sight.
Both the French and the British argue that moving to formally recognize a State of Palestine in the coming months – teaming up with Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab states – is important for charting a path forward for a post-conflict Gaza and West Bank that preserves the dream of a two-state solution.
“[The] prospect of two states, whose rights are recognized and respected, is in mortal danger,” said French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot at a United Nations conference on the Palestinian issue July 28.
“It is threatened by the barbaric attack of 7 October,” it is “Threatened by the unprecedented savagery and cruelty that Hamas terrorists unleashed,” and “Threatened by the shameful fate of the hostages who are still being held,” continued Barrot, referring to Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel.
But, it is also “threatened by the indefinite prolongation of Israel’s military operations in Gaza, launched in turn, which have long since ceased to have any military or political justification,” Barrot added, placing blame on Israel for mass displacement of Gazan civilians, destroyed places of worship, schools, hospitals and poor distribution of humanitarian aid.
The two-state solution “is about to give way to perpetual confrontation,” he also said. “That is something that France simply cannot resign itself to.”
The following day, United Kingdom Prime Minister Kier Starmer echoed the French minister, warning that a permanent peace settlement between the two sides is “under threat” by the ongoing conflict.
Starmer vowed that the United Kingdom would recognize an independent Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly meeting in September if the Israelis and Hamas do not make meaningful progress towards a ceasefire that includes Hamas releasing hostages, Israel increasing access to humanitarian aid, and Israel agreeing to commit to “a long-term, sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a Two-State Solution.”
But, President Trump and his diplomatic officials have pushed back on this Europe-led effort to recognize a Palestinian state, characterizing it as unproductive at best and a gift to Hamas at worst. Ultimately, they view the European effort as more likely to prolong the conflict rather than bring about a peaceful outcome.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the decision to recognize a Palestinian state later this year if no ceasefire is reached only encourages Hamas to obstruct any negotiations in the meantime.
“If Hamas refuses to agree to a ceasefire, it guarantees a Palestinian state will be recognized by all these countries in September,” Rubio said in an interview on Fox News Radio on Thursday. “So they’re not going to agree to a ceasefire. I mean, it’s so clumsy.”
By threatening to recognize a Palestinian state to spur peace negotiations, France and Britain are placing pressure on the wrong party. According to the Trump administration, Hamas is the main party stalling negotiations, while Israel has shown a willingness to make concessions to achieve a ceasefire.
David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who focuses his research on Israel and Palestine, told Just the News that “Hamas will only compromise when it feels intense pressure and when it thinks that continued fighting would present an existential danger to the group” because the group is primarily motivated by destruction of the Israeli state.
“Almost immediately after European support for recognizing a Palestinian state started dominating headlines, Hamas began changing agreed-upon ceasefire terms and introducing new demands,” May said. “When Europe places all the demands on Israel and doesn’t condition them on requirements of Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group just has to sit back and let European pressure do the work for it.”
The day after French President Macron vowed to recognize a Palestinian state, ceasefire and hostage negotiations with Hamas broke down over what the United States said was Hamas’s unwillingness to negotiate. The United States and Israel announced they were pulling out of the talks with Hamas because the American president said the group “didn't want to make a deal.”
“I think they want to die. And it's very bad. And it got to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job,” President Trump told reporters. Trump’s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff also blamed Hamas for the breakdown.
It is unclear whether the terror group was made aware of the French president’s announcement before it submitted the latest ceasefire proposal, which was unacceptable to the Israeli and U.S. negotiators.
Nevertheless, the European support for a Palestinian state appears to have emboldened the group. Hamas later praised the French and British promises of Palestinian recognition, even though both countries said that it would be unacceptable for the terror group to remain in control of the Gaza Strip.
“Any effort made at the international level to support our Palestinian people and their legitimate rights is appreciated and welcomed,” Hamas said in a statement. The group also demanded the “unconditional recognition” of a Palestinian state, the New York Times reported.
May said that the European intervention would end up having the “opposite effect” from what they intended.
“Rather than empowering moderate Palestinians, as the Europeans hope would happen, it would have the opposite effect,” May said. “Not only is there no credible moderate Palestinian leadership, this action as a result of a war Hamas started would prove to the Palestinians that they can only achieve independence through violence, and Hamas will be crowned as the deliverer of Palestinian statehood.”
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Anyone who beleives a Palestinian state adjacent to Israel will lead to peace and tranquility is delusional. After the Holocaust, most Jews cannot even picture a world without Israel. Most Palestinians will never relinquish their claims and ties to the lands that were once theirs. As long as either one remains a viable political entity, there will never be a real peace in the region.
Europe always chooses poorly, I.e. WW1 and WW2.
those “European leaders” WANT to prolong the hostilities as long as they take to destroy the Jews.
the very last thing they want is a genuine peace in the region.
they want to finish draining Jewish blood, nothing less.
they realize that doing something as absurd as “recognizing a Palestinian state” (sic!) (and SICK!) will prolong the Hamas hostilities for a very very long time (and simple “recognitions” are nothing more than statements — talk -— they cost those “Euro leaders” absolutely NOTHING)
and they’re otherwise worth absolutely nothing, too. except, again the intended continuation of hostilities against the Jewish people.
so we can expect several such “recognitions” of the non-existent Fakestinian state, a state (really a terrorist murder business machine).. a state that has never existed in human history... and never will.
The Japanese got wise. That’s what 2 bombs will do. Palestinians? You tell me.
The stupid governments demanding TO ISRAEL to get a cease fire with Gaza, make no demands at all on Hamas, and by threatening to “recognize Palestinian state” “unless there is a cease fire” they are helping to INSURE there will not be a cease fire, as their threat is in fact a reward to Hamas, and telling Hamas to just hold out.
I believe Scandinavia, the UK and the EU are well on their way to become part of Islam’s worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law and it looks like many of America’s youth want part of that. I wonder if that happens if all America’s women will like being treated like property?
(France and Britain, erstwhile global powers that have declined in importance under the American security umbrella, nevertheless hold some weight in the Middle East, a region previously colonized by the two countries following the First World War.
BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE LONG ADVOCATED FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION, A PROPOSAL THAT WOULD SEE AN INDEPENDENT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE COEXIST ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER as homelands for their respective peoples.)
A TWO-STATE SOLUTION, A PROPOSAL THAT WOULD SEE AN INDEPENDENT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE COEXIST ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER
In ‘PEACE AND SECURITY’ no doubt
Should work out just fine...🙄
(Stay prayed up)
🔝🔝🔝
🛐🛐🛐🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
Matthew 24:42-44
New King James Version
42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A42-44&version=NKJV
Luke 21:34-36
King James Version
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A34-36&version=KJV
Acts 2;38
John 3:17-18
Revelation 3:10
FYI
When it comes to Islam, Your O peons have their own problems thanks to their overlords. Islam is only concerned about a One State Solution. Islam.
Emboldening terrorists is never a good idea.
“”“You’re rewarding Hamas if you do that. I don’t think they should be rewarded,” President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One earlier this week while returning from a trip to Scotland.””
Trump is exactly right. And rewarding bad behavior is what the evil left always does.
Palestinians already think Israel is rightfully theirs even though they’ve never lived there or any of their ancestors (who are mostly from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria anyway). Giving them their own state would just encourage them to attack Israel even more.
The longer the war, the more the elites can peddle the lie that Israel is somehow doing something wrong by defending itself.
So this fits their agenda perfectly.
The elites want us subjugated.
Part of their plan, for reasons unknown to me, is destroying the Jews.
Time for EXTREME ECONOMIC SANCTIONS on all European countries who recognize a Palestinian State.
This is stupidity or treason on public and international display, but mostly this is an illustration of how far Europe has been taken over by Islam.
The only thing that could save Europe from its own self-inflicted destruction is another D-Day Invasion to drive out the moslems, with America driving in from the West and Russia (again) driving in from the East.
a couple of bombs might wisen up the Moslem terrorists and their “states” too
indeed, the bombs seem almost inevitable, they’ve been BEGGING and BEGGING to get blow to Jahannam for many years already
Prolonging the war is exactly what it will do. The EU war pigs know that.
France should be more worried about an Islamic state of France.
Well said.
For decades, Israel's been under attack from Iran, via worldwide terrorism, including their terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, the Gaza Strip, and the PA-occupied Judah and Samaria.
When Zero occupied the White House and when he wasn't subverting the gov't, he and his fat pantsuit Hitlery organized the overthrow of Egypt's gov't and the installation of a pro-Iranian Islamofascist. That didn't last.
Since then, Prez al-Sisi has been consistently undermined by Iran, with the assistance of the Deep State. His hold on power is probably precarious thanks to that; he's had so much trouble with the Iranian-sponsored Bedouin a-holes in the Sinai, his own son settled for a piece of the smuggling action just to simmer things down.
After President Trump leaves office -- unless there are a lot of hangings by then -- there is likely to be a sudden disintegration of public order in Egypt, similar to the one that was engineered in Libya by the Kenyan and likeminded factions in the EU.
Since no one has stepped forward to obliterate the Houthis, security of the massive commerce via the Suez Canal is at stake, and blackmail often works.
Once Hamas is gone, which take more months, Israel is likely to turn its undivided attention to Yemen. Speaking of blackmail working, Israel needs to pass a note to its European and Canadian enemies that the Suez Canal will no longer be off limits if the Palisimian recognition goes through.
Clinton offered Arafat, an Egyptian born in Egypt, not a “Palestinian,” this state and Arafat turned it down. Israel gave the “Palestinians” their own state, it’s called Gaza and look what happened. Hamas destroyed it’s own state and attacked Israel. There were beautiful greenhouses in Gaza that shipped two 747 plane loads A WEEK full of fresh produce to Europe—they were destroyed and ransacked as soon as Hamas took over.
The “Palestinians” do not want peace—they want Israel destroyed. The problem is the phony religion of Islam.
Surah Al-Baqarah 191: Kill them wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out. For persecution is far worse than killing.
Al-Baqarah means “the cow.”
There will never be peace in the middle east as long as there are radical Muslims.
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