France claims it is not rewarding terror by recognizing "Palestine." Terrorists disagree. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, July 25, 2025

France claims it is not rewarding terror by recognizing "Palestine." Terrorists disagree.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said France will recognize a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly. Yet it insists that this is not a reward for terror:

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. said, "Hamas has always rejected the two-state solution. By recognizing Palestine, France proves the wrongness of this terrorist movement. It supports the camp of peace as opposed to the camp of war," the minister stated.

If the statement was anti-Hamas, Hamas certainly didn't get the message. Hamas praised the announcement as an important step to destroying Israel.

Hamas called it "a positive step in the right direction towards achieving justice for our oppressed Palestinian people and supporting their legitimate right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on all of the occupied territories."

Hamas considers all of Israel to be "occupied territories."

But another, lesser noticed story from France shows how that country now rewards terror.

A French court has ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years for his role in the killings of two foreign diplomats in France in the early 1980s.

The former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Brigade was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for complicity in the 1982 murders of United States military attache Charles Robert Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Barsimantov in Paris and the attempted murder of US Consul General Robert Homme in Strasbourg in 1984.

Abdallah was released this morning.

His prison cell was nicer looking than most college dorm rooms - and included posters supporting terrorism ("Palestine Resistance").

The US has always opposed Abdallah's release, since he was convicted of killing one US diplomat and attempting the murder of another, so this is not just a French slap in the face of Israel - but of the United States as well.

Notably, there have been multiple rallies over the years in favor of Abdallah's release. Among socialist circles his imprisonment was a cause célèbre.

France cannot credibly deny that rewarding terror is its policy.

Whether it is out of fear of domestic terrorists, or a "principled" position supposedly for peace, France is giving aid, comfort and encouragement to those who want to see the West destroyed.