France’s Macron Has Been a Mediocre President. Now He Is Also an Immoral One.
Sep 22, 2025 10:00 am
By Hugh Fitzgerald
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So if France rewards Hamas by recognizing a “state of Palestine” just now, won’t that increase the terror group’s appeal to those “Palestinian people” whom Macron claims merely “want a state”? Macron has no idea that it is not just Hamas, but almost all Palestinians, who want Israel to disappear altogether, to be replaced by a twenty-third Arab state. He does not realize that the creation of a “state of Palestine” would whet, not sate, Palestinian appetites for more of Israeli land. He does not comprehend that any “state of Palestine” would be used, just as Gaza has been used by Hamas after the Israelis pulled out in 2005, as a place from which to launch endless attacks on Israel, whatever the size at that point of the Jewish state. More on Macron’s moral and geopolitical madness can be found here: “France Set to Recognize Palestinian State Despite Majority of Citizens Opposing the Move, New Survey Shows,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, September 19, 2025:
France’s expected move has also sparked strong reactions across the country, amid an already tense and hostile climate.
That “tense and hostile climate” in France is a result of the millions of Muslim economic migrants now living in France who have made life for the indigenous French more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than before those Muslim migrants arrived. They have been costing the state billions of dollars annually in welfare benefits of every kind — free or subsidized housing, free health care, free education and vocational training, family allowances, and more. These Muslim migrants are responsible for a steep rise in crime. Muslims in France make up 10% of the population, but more than 60% of the prison population. Muslims have established dozens of No-Go areas in France, where non-Muslims fear to tread, and even representatives of the state, such as firemen and policemen, need to enter those areas in well-guarded groups lest they be attacked by the locals.
Macron’s determination to recognize a Palestinian state with no preconditions, despite it being opposed by 71% of French voters, can be explained partly by his ignorance of what the Palestinians want, which is not, and never has been, “a Palestinian state living side by side with a Jewish one, in peace and security.” Macron does not understand the jihadist imperative, according to which the Infidel state of Israel, shaped like a dagger that has been plunged into the heart of Arabdom, has to be destroyed. Its continued existence is a constant reminder of the humiliation felt by the Arabs after the nakba — the “catastrophe” — of the 1948 war. Israel exists on land that was once possessed by Muslims and, therefore, it must forever be seen as Muslim land.
Macron is also keenly aware of the increasing Muslim vote, and is willing to spend the coin of Israel’s security to buy the political loyalty of Muslim citizens in France.
And finally, Macron can hardly be unaware that presenting himself as a champion of the Palestinians can be of great help after he leaves the presidency, should he want to work for the Arabs as an adviser, a political consultant, a columnist for Al Jazeera, or — like former Minister of Culture Jack Lang — as the very well-paid head of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Every politician in Western Europe knows that if you do the Arabs’ political bidding, they will take good care of you, both secretly, when you are in, and openly when you are out of, office.
Macron’s courting of the Arabs through his shameful recognition of a “state of Palestine” will only stiffen the resolve of those who, like the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, and Eric Zemmour of the Reconquête Party, are ardent defenders of Israel and, perhaps even more important, are determined to halt Muslim immigration into France and to deport Muslims convicted of crimes — of whom there are a great number — back to their countries of origin. Macron appears to be little interested in this rise in Muslim numbers. His attitude seems to be the same one famously expressed by King Louis XVI — “après moi le deluge.” He is not thinking coherently about the future of France. He’s been a mediocre president; now he’s shown himself to be, with his eagerness to recognize “Palestine” and to abandon Israel, an immoral one. |
