TThe question of recognizing Palestine as a state, revived by Emmanuel Macron on April 9, has been a French political and diplomatic debate for almost 40 years. The theme dates back to the symbolic proclamation of a Palestinian State by Yasser Arafat (1929-2004), the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in Algiers on November 15, 1988, after the demonstrations of the first intifada.
According to his entourage, the French president could take the step in June with a conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, which he will co -chapter with the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman. But before Macron, other French presidents have also made promises on this issue, none or that have materialized. In France, the Israeli-Palestine issue refers to both foreign policy and internal policy.
In 1988, a week after the historical meeting in Algiers, former French president François Mitterrand (1916-1996) declared in The Daily Release That “the recognition of a Palestinian State does not raise any principle problem for France.” Six years before, in March 1982, in a pioneering speech before the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, the socialist president had mentioned the right of the Palestinians to have a state and encouraged dialogue with the PLO, for the displacement or the mememe Hisme of the breakdown of (1913-1992), a hardliner, and of his own party, which was comfortable.
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