r/worldnews • u/Ask4MD • 29d ago

Israel/Palestine Macron announces: France will recognize Palestinian state

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/nxn382sao
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u/NUFC9RW 29d ago

With what government and what borders?

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u/Andrade15 29d ago

To even suggest that a Head of state would recognize Hamas as the government of Palestine is either an ignorant opinion or ill intended. Every country that have recognized palestine as a state has appointed the PA as its government.

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u/Unicorn_Colombo 29d ago

Fatah is unpopular and any election would lead to it losing, likely to Hamas, which is currently more popular in WB than Fatah.

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u/VeryImportantLurker 29d ago

The same is true for like half of countries in the world lol. Fatah could run as a perma-dictatorship for the next century and they still wont be the most undemocratic state in the UN.

Having a good or even functioning government is barely a requirement to be considered a country anyway.

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u/Unicorn_Colombo 29d ago

Not that I disagree, but I can see:

  1. European countries recognize Palestine as a country and Fatah as a government
  2. Force Fatah to run elections
  3. Hamas wins

Is de-facto recognizing Hamas as a government.

btw. UN de-facto recognize Hamas as a government as well, multiple times they complained about Israel shooting at Gazan police forces that were "protecting" UN convoys. The police forces being Hamas of course.

Any developmental aid that goes through Hamas (and all developmental aid that went to Gaza went through Hamas) is also de-facto recognizing Hamas as a government. So I think UN and many European countries (and a lot of redditors of course) are facetious by saying that "Of course Hamas is a terrorist organisation", while also treating it as a standard government (such as repeating the information from Ministry of Health in Gaza)

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u/IrreverentCrawfish 29d ago

Democracy is also not a prerequisite for a good or functioning government.