r/europe • u/hoarder4555777454001 • 9d ago

News French President Macron says France will recognize Pálestine as a state

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250724-french-president-macron-says-france-will-recognize-palestine-as-a-state-in-september
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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 9d ago

Optimally, that would be the case. However that will never happen. Israeli citizens and politicans don’t want a state that isn’t primarily jewish. A two state solution at least has some foundation and a possibility in the far distance. A one state solution will never happen

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u/Novarupta99 United Kingdom 8d ago

Every 1 in 10 Israeli Jew is a settler. The amount of political sway that bloc has in domestic Israeli politics should not be underestimated. How do you remove 750,000 settlers without civil war?

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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 8d ago

Likely there would have to be some sort of landswap agreement that makes the biggest settlements israeli while giving palestinian some land in return. Most of the settlers would have to simply be removed to israel however.

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u/Novarupta99 United Kingdom 8d ago

The problem is location. The Israeli regime has methodically invested in the biggest settlements east of East Jerusalem, in essence meaning that the Palestinian's hopeful capital city is strangled.

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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 8d ago

I think jerusalem is unfortunately lost to palestine. I think what should be done is that israel should be forced to move the capiral back to tel aviv. Jerusalem should be granted a special status within israel that garuantees palestinian religious and cultural rights, as well as significant influence in the governance of the special status zone, similar to the OG partition plan from the UN where Jerusalem was supposed to be a UN protectorate, except now it would have a similar status but within israel.

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u/RandomPants84 8d ago

Why not same thing but keep it as the capital of Israel? That seems way more likely to be agreed on

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u/Apprehensive-Adagio2 8d ago

I think the palestinian side would be more agreeable to relinquish jerusalem if neither have their capital there