France is back-pedaling from a decision to submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council forcing Israel to renew negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
PA foreign minister Fiyad al-Maliki told Voice of Palestine radio on Tuesday that France was instead advancing a suggestion to form a negotiations support committee.
The move follows a visit to Israel in early June, during which French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius urged the resumption of final status talks between Israel and the PA.
Netanyahu warned in remarks prior to his meeting with Fabius that the international community’s ideas for peace with the Palestinian Authority ignore the security needs of Israel.
Fabius subsequently discussed the issue in depth with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and a host of other top government officials.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had already rejected out of hand the most recent French proposal for a resolution in the UN Security Council giving both sides 18 months to reach an agreement. The reason: Under the French resolution, the PA would be required to recognize Israel as a “Jewish” state.
“I can say that the idea of the French draft resolution in the Security Council is not a main topic for decision makers in France anymore,” Maliki said, after a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Cairo.
However, said Maliki, a negotiations support committee would only make sense if talks are under way. The committee would be comprised of representatives from the members of the UN Security Council, in addition to Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, he added.
U.S.-brokered talks between Israel and the PA collapsed in April 2014 with the decision by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to instead form a unity government with Gaza’s ruling Hamas terror organization, whose charter calls for the annihilation of the State of Israel.
Better for him and for France….i saw trubles in the air for the french
Oh? He is finally realizing he’s been a fool, or is it just that the current hemorrhage of Jews leaving France is starting to become a public embarrassment as well as an economic dampener?
Palestine is a fake place filled with Jordanian Arabs. Israel belongs to the Jewish people.
France should stay away from subject they dont understand. In the quest for recognition which cannot come from the French people, HOLLANDE is medling in all kind of stuff he should stay away from. Israel does not need France providing any kind of counselling . The French government should tka care of,its interior priorities first !
France is now sitting on a boat without a sail, unsure where and when they will reach shore.
great
Can you imagine the french working against Israel. Same story different day. A Jew can’t walk down a street in Paris without getting garbage thrown at them. These are the people who are dictating what Israel needs to do. Really!
You turn on Israel – you then face your own demons fighting terrorism…get the French Jews home….
Does the PA recognize France as a state? Anyway for whatever reason that they changed their minds we thank you.
You want the Jewish people and their businesses or do you want the Muslim rabble telling you how to run France?
Good news. I only hope New Zealand does not try to step in and try to force Israel to reconvene the PA-Israel peace talks. I am a Kiwi and I fear that NZ tries to make a name for herself in the UNSC without France. God bless Israel.
Likewise Dorothy, NZ would delight at making a name for itself, as she is as anti Israel as most of the rest of that discredited and corrupt organization. And the one vying to be the next Secretary General is none other than avowed anti Israeli, Helen Clark! So we can't expect any change for the better from this international failure mistakenly named United Nations
Where will this end.. Here is yet another enemy for Israel to defeat… and yet another Muslim organization that uses the poor population of Gaza as sacrificial lambs, and fodder for their PR against Israel.
Bravo France! Now France must follow this brave action and stand firm against the so-called "deal" with Iran… which allows Iran a clear path to building a nuclear arsenal, no matter how it is worded. Our senate must up the ante and raise the sanctions.
OOPs.. this was a comment for another article by the same author, telling of the formation of a new Iranian -backed group in Gaza.
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