(Jerusalem Post) An experts’ report, commissioned by the French Ministry of Interior, recommended that France formally recognize the state of Palestine in order to “appease” Muslim voters and calm internal tensions, as part of a broader report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence and political Islamism in French society, which was published in May.
The French Ministry of Interior clarified to the Jerusalem Post that while the ministry made every element of the report, including the topic of Palestinian state recognition, public for all to see, it is not the ministry’s position that a Palestinian state should be recognized at this time.
In fact, it noted that the minister of the interior, Bruno Daniel Marie Paul Retailleau, doesn’t believe the current conditions are suitable for the recognition of a Palestinian state, and to do so now would be giving “a victory to Hamas.”
