By pledging to recognize a Hamas-ruled “Palestine,” France and the UK have abandoned the remaining Israeli hostages, rewarded terror, and emboldened genocide.
Do the governments of Britain and France want the remaining Israeli hostages to die? Or do they simply not care?
Those are the only conclusions after French President Emmanuel Macron declared he will recognize a Hamas-controlled “Palestinian state” at the UN General Assembly in September — and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatened to follow suit if Hamas still rules Gaza by then.
Let’s be clear: this is the same Hamas that still holds 50 hostages — 20 of them confirmed alive — and has committed some of the most barbaric crimes since the Holocaust. This is the Hamas that slaughters civilians, rapes women as a weapon of war, executes its own people for Sharia violations, and steals aid meant for its starving population. Its charter openly calls for the genocide of Jews.
Yet France and Britain are insisting on recognizing “Palestine” while much of it remains under Hamas rule. What possible outcome could they expect? Why would Hamas give up its hostages when international powers are offering state recognition as a reward for its terror? Why would it relinquish control of Gaza when that very control is the ticket to diplomatic legitimacy from London and Paris?
It was international pressure — particularly from Britain and France — that convinced Hamas it could torpedo the ceasefire talks last week without consequences. Despite losing most of its leadership and much of its fighting force, Hamas still believes it can win the war through propaganda and the complicity of global antisemitism.
France and Britain know this. Yet they are doing exactly what Hamas wants. Their worldview is frozen in the last century — blind to the reality of 2025. They cling to the fantasy of a Two-State Solution that died when Yasser Arafat rejected peace 25 years ago and instead unleashed a wave of suicide bombings and mass murder.
Rewarding evil is evil. Embracing evil is evil. And that is precisely what Britain and France are doing. They are legitimizing a terror regime that enslaves its own people and murders Jews simply for existing.
By pushing ahead with recognition while Hamas still governs Gaza and still holds hostages, Britain and France have declared — in effect — that the lives of the hostages are cheap. That the lives of the 1,200 innocent men, women, and children butchered on October 7 are cheap. That the lives of every Jewish child in Israel — and even their own Jewish citizens — are expendable.
If the remaining hostages do not come home alive, their blood will be on the hands of Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. History will not remember this as a gesture of peace — it will remember it as a moral collapse.
