{"id":63645,"date":"2025-07-25T05:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=63645"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:06:31","slug":"macron-says-france-will-recognize-state-of-palestine-angering-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=63645","title":{"rendered":"Macron says France will recognize State of Palestine, angering Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognize a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.<\/p>\n<p>At least 142 countries now recognize or plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, according to an AFP tally &#8212; though Israel and the United States strongly oppose the move.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a &#8220;reckless decision (that) only serves Hamas propaganda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a slap in the face to the victims of October 7th,&#8221; he wrote on X, alluding to the Islamist militant group&#8217;s attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have announced plans to recognize statehood for the Palestinians since Israel launched a bombardment of Gaza nearly two years ago in response to the Hamas attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Macron&#8217;s announcement drew immediate anger from Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it &#8220;rewards terror&#8221; and poses an existential threat to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said in a statement that the decision &#8220;risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became&#8221;, which would be &#8220;a launch pad to annihilate Israel &#8212; not to live in peace beside it&#8221;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/295561\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognize a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move. At least 142 countries now recognize or plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, according to an AFP tally &#8212; though Israel and the United States strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63647,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions\/63647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}