Piers Akerman: Macron is making another international faux pas with recognition of a Palestinian state

Emmanuel Macron will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations general assembly in September – but the French don’t have a great track record in international affairs, writes Piers Akerman.

France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations general assembly in September, President Macron has announced.

Well, bon chance, boyo.

The French don’t have a great track record in international affairs.

The Treaty of Versailles, signed in France in 1919, was so lopsided it positively encouraged the Germans to rampage through Europe 20 years on.

France’s debacle in Vietnam, their former colony of Indochina, drew the US and Australia into a long and bloody war which the Communist North eventually won.

A Vietnamese soldier waves a flag atop a French position as others assault the area at the Dien Bien Phu battlefield in 1954. The epic battle precipitated the collapse of French colonial rule in Indochina. Picture: AFP

Their other former colonies haven’t fared well either.

Algeria, which the French left after a bloody independence war in 1962, is a civilian dictatorship.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and ruled by criminal gangs.

Children sit a school converted into a refuge for displaced people in downtown Port-au-Prince on July 21. More than 3000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year. Picture: Clarens Siffroy/AFP

Syria has swapped a dictator for an Islamist government ruled by a terrorist, and Lebanon remains home to the Iranian-backed terrorist organisation Hezbollah.

Niger has the lowest Human Development Index in the world. HDI is a measure of life expectancy, education and standard of living.

Chad is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Cambodia, where the third most violent genocide occurred, is now engaged in a border conflict with Thailand.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas prior to a 2018 meeting at the Elysee Palace. France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations general assembly in September. Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP

Macron believes he is a trailblazing intermediary but he’s an idiot who has hasn’t matured beyond adolescence, not that dissimilar from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.

They all parrot Hamas propaganda and not one has any understanding of the Middle East.

Albanese and Wong instinctively favour Leftist causes but most Australians just haven’t woken up yet.

They show contempt for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and favour nations whose cultures are at odds with our own.

Macron wants to recognise the descendants of Arabs who fled Israel when the fledgling nation was attacked by armies from the surrounding nations – Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Arabs who stayed in Israel enjoy equal rights with other minorities. There are Arabs in the army, on the Supreme Court bench and in parliament. Arab women (and gays) in Israel enjoy freedoms that exist nowhere else in the Muslim world.

The number of Middle Eastern immigrants in France continues to explode and there are now more than 750 no-go zones across the nation where sharia is the rule.

The French government, like the Albanese government, is threatened by the Muslim vote and will do anything to appease the mullahs.

In May, the French Department of the Interior published a 73-page report, titled Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France, which detailed the extremist group’s infiltration into every public institution including the school system, army, sports associations and the police. The report speaks of a “threat to the republic”.

Macron’s hope of appeasing this frightening spectre by recognising a non-existent body is nonsensical.

There is a historical undercurrent of anti-Semitism in France as can be seen by the famous Dreyfus case in which a Jewish French officer was wrongly accused and convicted of treason in 1894.

The Albanese government has done nothing to quell the surge in anti-Semitism in Australia that followed the October 7, 2023, attacks.

France owed its freedom in World War I in large part to our Diggers and the leadership of the brilliant tactician General Sir John Monash, born in West Melbourne to German Jewish immigrants.

Instead of following Macron in his folly, we should remind him of the debt he owes this Jewish Australian, and urge him not to concede to terrorism.

Originally published as Piers Akerman: Macron is making another international faux pas with recognition of a Palestinian state