Exasperated by Netanyahu, France Prepares to Recognize Palestinian State
This post originally ran on Truthdig contributor Juan Cole’s website.
Even the staunchly pro-Israel French Socialist Party has had it with
Israeli expansionism and aggression. French Foreign Minister Laurent
Fabius announced Friday that France
would make one last push to restart diplomatic negotiations between
Israel and Palestine, but said that if the endeavor failed then France
intended to recognize the Palestinian state. Paris is obviously
implying that the failure of diplomacy and the abrogation of the Oslo
peace process are primarily the fault of the Likud government of Israel.
