With slow steps, Mahmoud Abbas climbed the steps of the Elysée, hand in hand with Emmanuel Macron, as if supported by the French president in his latest efforts for peace and the assertion of Palestinian statehood. Tuesday, November 11, the 90-year-old man who was received in Paris for the first time since the recognition of Palestine by France, greeted, wearing but moved, “ brave attitude » his French counterpart, who on September 22, at the UN General Assembly in New York, defied the anger of Israel and the United States by launching a massive movement in favor of Palestinian sovereignty along with some ten countries, including Britain and Canada.
This recognition is still only symbolic. Paris will only open an embassy in Palestine if the bodies of four Israeli hostages still in the hands of Hamas are returned to their families. But this gesture marks “ historic turning point”, want to trust people who are not yet old. “The road to freedom is closer now than ever before”he said, speaking to “the great Palestinian people”dreamed of its founding “two states (Israel and Palestine) coexist peacefully and safely.”
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