{"id":84320,"date":"2025-07-25T06:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84320"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:35:33","slug":"macron-reocgnises-palestine-whilst-starmer-prevaricates-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/25\/macron-reocgnises-palestine-whilst-starmer-prevaricates-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron recognises Palestine whilst Starmer prevaricates, as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/3GTgHvE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the FT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Emmanuel Macron has pledged that France will recognise Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly in September, becoming the biggest and most influential EU country to do so as pressure grows on Israel to end its offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the French leader lauded promises that Abbas had made in their discussions and said France would make the long-awaited political move in return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn keeping with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the state of Palestine,\u201d Macron wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is urgent now that the war in Gaza stops and that the aid be brought to the population. Peace is possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have two obvious comments.<\/p>\n<p>First, good, and about time.<\/p>\n<p>Second, where is Starmer on this? Nowhere of course. Still sitting on the fence as people are killed in a genocide.<\/p>\n<p>History is not going to be kind to him.<\/p>\n<p>I rather hope The Hague won\u2019t be either. His indecision is criminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT reports: President Emmanuel Macron has pledged that France will recognise Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly in September, becoming<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/25\/macron-reocgnises-palestine-whilst-starmer-prevaricates-as-ever\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84332,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84320\/revisions\/84332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}