Having done plenty to irritate his supposed allies in Israel—in particular by undermining efforts to free the remaining hostages—French President Emmanuel Macron has found new friends in Hamas.
The terror group on Thursday praised the president’s proposal to recognise a Palestinian state, in the fanciful hope of getting Iran to recognise Israel, telling AFP this was an “important step.”
France, as a country with political weight and a permanent member of the [United Nations] Security Council, has the ability to influence the course of fair solutions and push towards ending the occupation and achieving the aspirations of the Palestinian people.
Hamas official Mahmud Mardawi described these aspirations as “the establishment of their state on their land, with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez received a similar back-patting soon after the atrocities of October 7th when he proposed to recognise a Palestinian state. Hamas hailed Sánchez’s “clear and courageous stance,” while Israel denounced his “support for terrorism.”
Hamas’ appeal to the ECHR to challenge its UK terror group status has also received further backlash after the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) uncovered unsavory social media posts by the head of the law firm representing the terrorist group, including one in which he expressed hope that “every one” of the bullets fired by “the heroic Palestinian resistance … hit their targets.”
The CAA has likewise attacked the legal application itself as “500 pages of propaganda dressed up as law,” claiming it is riddled with “outrageous lies.”
It is now writing to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
