Emmanuel Macron (Wikipedia)
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that France could officially recognize a Palestinian state as early as June 2025. Macron also suggested that, in parallel, some Middle Eastern nations may move to recognize Israel, signaling a potential diplomatic breakthrough in the region.
The statement underscores France’s growing role in efforts to advance a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Macron emphasized that mutual recognition could help restore dialogue and build momentum toward lasting peace.
The announcement comes amid rising international pressure to find a political resolution to the ongoing conflict and follows renewed discussions among EU leaders and Arab states regarding coordinated recognition of Palestinian statehood.
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“We need to move towards recognition (of a Palestinian state). And so over the next few months, we will. I’m not doing it to please anyone. I’ll do it because at some point it will be right,” Macron told France 5 television. “I will do it… because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to take part in a collective dynamic that should also enable those who defend Palestine to recognize Israel in their turn, something that many of them are not doing.”
Isael’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned Macron’s comments.
“A ‘unilateral recognition’ of a fictional Palestinian state, by any country, in the reality that we all know, will be a prize for terror and a boost for Hamas,” Sa’ar said. “These kind of actions will not bring peace, security and stability in our region closer – but the opposite: they only push them further away.”
This is not the first time that Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of recognizing a Palestinian State.
Last May, Macron said, “I am totally prepared to recognize a Palestinian state but this recognition must come at a useful moment.”
