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“You cannot recognize a Palestinian state with conditions”
Leïla Shahid
The former general delegate of Palestine in France, Leïla Shahid, praised Emmanuel Macron’s decision on RTL on Monday on Monday to recognize the state of Palestine, believing that it is “much more than a symbol”. “Of course, it is a symbol, but today President Macron confirms what the French presidents from Charles de Gaulle were trying to do without officially achieving it,” she said. The Shahid, who was general delegate then Palestine ambassador to Paris in 1993, recalls that “there is already a Palestinian embassy in Paris”. But, according to her, the scope of the advertisement is that the head of state acts
“In a very official way to the United Nations” and “leads with him ten countries”.
Asked about the condition set by Emmanuel Macron – the release of hostages before the opening of a French embassy in Palestine – the diplomat expressed her reserves: “Legally, you recognize or you do not recognize, but you cannot recognize with conditions. Because tomorrow English will say: I have another condition, and the Portuguese another. International law says: we recognize a state. ” However, she added: “Of course, it’s up to us to release [les otages]and we want it more than you, because the whole war is justified by Mr. Netanyahu saying: it is to release the hostages. For many, this recognition by France arrives after decades of silence and diplomatic calculations, even though the Palestinian population undergoes an offensive that many NGOs and international jurists qualify as genocide. It is therefore a late recognition, constrained by the extent of the massacres and the systematic destruction of Gaza. By finally naming the Palestinian state, Paris implicitly recognizes the existence of a people that we try to erase under the bombs, and recalls that international law only makes sense if it protects those who are the most vulnerable today. This gesture, if it marks an advance, also underlines the immense delay of the Western powers in the face of one of the most blatant human and political tragedies of our time.