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Netanyahu: French Recognition of Palestine Would Be "Irresponsible"
(i24 News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told i24 News in an interview on Sunday that French recognition of a Palestinian state would be "irresponsible," ahead of a vote on the issue on Dec. 2. "What they're voting on is Palestine without peace," he said. "That's what the Palestinians want. They want to have a state. Not to end the war with Israel, but to continue the war from improved boundaries." "When Islamist fires are sweeping throughout the Middle East, when every place that we vacate becomes a bastion for militant Islam and for Iran, this is what is going to produce peace? To ask Israel to put the suburbs of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the hands of Islamic militants?" The French vote, Netanyahu said, will do nothing to promote peace and in fact will harden the Palestinian position by signaling that nothing has to be given in return.