(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - After the fall of Bashar Assad, French President Emmanuel Macron is campaigning fiercely to offer PA President Mahmoud Abbas an independent state. The French president loves grandiose ceremonies and dreams of one day being able to bring together all the world's great leaders at the Palace of Versailles to witness the signing of a new Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. Listening to him, one gets the impression that France is still ruling in our region. The French president's megalomania seems to blind him to the reality on the ground. Does he really think that the Jewish state will give in to the creation of a new terrorist state after the terrible events of Oct. 7, 2023? Israelis reject diktat, unnecessary risks, and suicide. The West, led by Macron, is wrong to focus its concern only on the territorial conflict with the Palestinians. The real problem remains the presence of Shiite and Sunni Islamists in our region, God-crazed people who want to take over from the Arab-Muslim regimes and then destroy the Jewish state. They will not stop there, their next step will take place in Europe. How does Emmanuel Macron dare to imagine the creation of a Palestinian state? Who will lead this new state? Hamas, which already has a presence in Jenin and Hebron? Has Macron not yet understood the meaning of the pro-Palestinian slogans in street demonstrations, on campuses, and in Paris chanting: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"? After the massacre of Oct. 7, no Israeli government will accept the two-state formula. The writer, a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
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