France condemns Israeli minister’s accusations of inciting hatred
France has dismissed claims by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar that European governments were inciting hatred against his country.
“These are completely outrageous and completely unjustified remarks,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said. “France has condemned, France condemns and France will continue to condemn, always and unequivocally, any act of anti-Semitism.”
US Muslim group condemns killing of Israel embassy workers
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers does not represent the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States.
“We condemn last night’s deadly attack on Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC,” CAIR said in a statement.
“While millions of Americans feel extreme frustration at the sight of the Israeli government slaughtering Palestinian men, women and children on a daily basis with weapons paid for with our taxpayer dollars, political violence is an unacceptable crime and is not the answer.”
“It’s high time we recognise Palestine,’ Labour MP Thornberry says
Labour MP and chair of the United Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee Emily Thornberry has welcomed what she described as a change in the British government’s position on Israel.
In an interview with Channel 4 News, Thornberry argued that the possibility of sanctioning far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and a hiatus in trade negotiations with Tel Aviv represented a significant shift,
She also lambasted Netanyahu for prolonging the war for political gain. “There was a peace agreement. Both sides had agreed to it. And then Netanyahu was the one who said, ‘No, we’re not going to sign it and wanted to continue with the war’,” she said.
“And the trouble is that we have a leader in Israel who just wants a perpetual war, as far as we can see.”
Thornberry also called on the UK to recognise Palestinian statehood. “It really is high time that we recognise the State of Palestine,” she said, adding that a planned conference in New York this June, hosted by Saudi Arabia and France, would provide an opportunity for the UK and France to lead a renewed diplomatic push.
The UK has only been promising Palestinians their own rule since the British empire bartered for their support in WW1.
"In 1915, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, exchanged letters with Sheik Sharif Hussein, the Emir of Mecca (known today as the “Hussein-McMahon Correspondence”). In these letters, McMahon promised the Arabs independence in return for their support fighting the Ottomans."
And of course in the failed partition plans of 1937 and 1947.
