Frustration, Gaza alarm drove Macron to go it alone on Palestine recognition

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2. Some interesting points:

Fear of the US. scared away the UK and Canada. Shame.

Three diplomats said London did not want to face the wrath of the United States, and Ottawa took a similar stance, leaving Macron to go it alone.

Maybe focus first on saving the Palestinian state from becoming rubble and annexed to Israel? Symbolic gestures are nice and all but...

Others say while recognition has symbolic value, there will still be no functioning Palestinian state whenever the war in Gaza comes to an end.

"Recognition by a European heavyweight like France is indicative of the rising frustration with Israel's intransigent policies," said Amjad Iraqi, senior analyst at International Crisis Group.

"What's the point of recognising a state if they're doing little to stop it from turning into ruins?"

Israel's parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of a non-binding declaration urging the government to apply Israeli law to the West Bank, widely seen as a de facto annexation of the territory. That added to the urgency in Paris.