From Washington Examiner: The Department of State is frustrated by France and the United Kingdom’s plan to recognize a sovereign Palestinian state, saying such rhetoric gives “false hope” to terrorists and denigrates Hamas’s victims.
French President Emmanuel Macron sparked the debate last week when he announced that his country would recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Tammy Bruce called the two European powers’ willingness to legitimize Palestinian sovereignty a “slap in the face to the victims of Oct. 7” and “rewards Hamas” for its terrorist attacks.
“It gives one group hope, and that is Hamas. It is rewarding of that kind of behavior — that if you wait long enough, if you don’t cooperate — in any other normal environment where someone is so utterly defeated, they would surrender,” Bruce told the press. “In this case, that just does not occur.”
“And part of it is because of perhaps the hope they receive on how long the suffering lasts, how much that pushes the world to acquiesce to their arguments,” Bruce continued.
“There’s one group that benefits from the images and reality of the horribleness, and that is Hamas. And so there’s a reason they don’t cooperate and stop. And this adds one more thing onto it that adds into their apparent posture that this is a winning thing to do. Clearly, we are the opposite mind.”
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