(Jun. 14, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
France \u201ccannot act as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians,\u201d Israel\u2019s embassy in Paris told Reuters on Friday, responding to the latest French push for a two-state solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegarding the two-state solution, the ambassador recalls that the Palestinians have rejected proposals to establish a Palestinian state on five occasions,\u201d the diplomatic mission said in a statement to the news wire.<\/p>\n
The embassy was responding to a conference hosted by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot on Friday, which brought together some 250 two-state activists to mark one year since Paris\u2019s call to establish \u201cPalestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israeli Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka \u201cwas invited but will not attend the conference, as it has nothing to do with promoting peace,\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s meeting brought together foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries, alongside civil society groups. It came one year after the \u201cParis Call for the Two-State Solution,\u201d which set out a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood and prompted about a dozen countries, including France, Britain and Canada, to recognize a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
The gathering ended with a call for action urging a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip alongside reconstruction, a halt to Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian Authority governance reforms and stronger international backing for Palestinian civil society. The proposal will be shared with G7 leaders who are set to meet at \u00c9vian-les-Bains in the French Alps starting on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could find every reason in the world to give up\u2014but you are here. Your testimonies alone are grounds for hope and action,\u201d Barrot told attendees. \u201cFrance refuses to let the side of war prevail over the side of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron last year that the establishment of a Palestinian state would be \u201ca major reward for terrorism\u201d and a strategic threat to the Jewish state.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu told Macron on April 15, 2025, that a Palestinian state established minutes from Israeli population centers would become \u201can Iranian terror stronghold,\u201d and \u201can overwhelming majority of the Israeli public is firmly opposed to such a move,\u201d according to a statement from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
He also noted that \u201cno Palestinian entity\u2014including the Palestinian Authority\u2014has condemned the Oct. 7, [2023,] massacre,\u201d adding that the P.A. \u201ceducates its children to seek Israel\u2019s destruction and financially rewards murderers of Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu in November condemned Macron for embracing Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas as a \u201cprince of peace\u201d following their meeting in Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo bring in such a person, embrace him and say you\u2019re the prince of peace is the opposite of reality\u2014it\u2019s false,\u201d Netanyahu told Australian reporter Erin Molan of \u201cThe Erin Molan Show\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot build peace on falsehoods. Sooner or later, these falsehoods crash on the rocks of Middle East reality,\u201d the premier continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is that the Palestinian leader Abbas, who was feted right now in Paris, pays terrorists to kill Jews,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more Jews they kill, the more they get paid. They take care of their families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Jun. 14, 2026 \/ JNS) France \u201ccannot act as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians,\u201d Israel\u2019s embassy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-492083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}