French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday rebuffed the United States’s argument that offering support for a Palestinian state undermines attempts to end the war in Gaza.
Macron’s decision this summer to recognize a Palestinian state prompted Secretary of State Marco Rubio to issue a warning that the “reckless” move disincentivized Hamas from making a deal with Israel to end the war in Gaza.
The French president spurned Rubio’s concerns during an interview with CBS News in Paris. Macron explained he believes recognizing a Palestinian state hurts, not helps, Hamas, the terrorist organization that has controlled Gaza for years.
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“The objective of Hamas is absolutely not to create a Palestinian state,” he said, adding that he viewed “reckless” as “an excessive word” for the secretary of state
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