Massive outrage in Tel Aviv: Trump says Macron ‘Carries no weight'
ALBAWABA - Washington and Paris: Former U.S. President Donald Trump strongly disagreed with French President Emmanuel Macron's recent decision to recognize the State of Palestine, calling it "meaningless" and not having any political weight. Also Read Israel launches a new wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon
The world is angry about Israel's military activities in Gaza, which led to Macron's statement, which is a big change in policy from a major Western power.
Reporters were told this by Trump at the White House:
"What Macron says doesn't matter. We pulled out of the talks in Gaza because Hamas doesn't want peace. There needs to be a fight until Hamas is gone.
Trump's words come after Macron's promise to officially recognize Palestine at the September UN General Assembly. Macron told Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, in a message that France would continue to work for world recognition of Palestine as a state and encourage other countries to do the same.
France is the first country in the G7 to support Palestinian independence since 2024, when Spain, Norway, and Ireland did the same. Macron said that the move was necessary to protect the two-state solution and help with the growing humanitarian situation in Gaza.
But Israeli and American leaders were very angry about it. Israeli officials called France's move a "diplomatic bomb" that could do a lot of damage to ties between the two countries. The move was also criticized by U.S. officials, who called it "reckless" and said it would likely give Hamas more power. — Sky News (@SkyNews) July 25, 2025
Macron's decision comes just a few days before France and Saudi Arabia co-host a UN peace meeting. The goal of the meeting is to get the political process moving again toward a calm and providing aid to people in Gaza. Macron is set to officially give the award at the UN General Assembly in New York at the beginning of September.
Diplomats say that the French move could make countries that aren't sure about recognizing Palestine, like the UK, Germany, and Australia, change their minds.
The political impact keeps getting worse. Human rights and pro-Palestinian groups praise France, but it could hurt its security and intelligence relationships with the U.S. and Israel this way. Israel is said to have threatened possible reprisal actions, such as cutting off cooperation and sharing of information with Paris in the area.
Germany has said it won't follow France's lead in the near future. The UK, on the other hand, said it would still back a Palestinian state "eventually," but stressed that it would put emergency aid first.
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