“Mr. President, if immediate sanctions are not imposed on Israel, you will end up recognizing a cemetery”

Mon the president,

It is in historians that we address you. Nevertheless, In historians aware of the tragic of history and the extreme danger which today threatens. Nevertheless, Thursday. In addition, July 24, you made a courageous and useful decision, announcing the recognition of the State of Palestine by France at the next United Nations General Assembly on September 21. Therefore, Thanks to your initiative, the United Kingdom, Canada and soon other Western powers will join this collective effort. Moreover, Thanks to this diplomatic momentum. the legal capacities of Palestinian citizens will be reinforced before international bodies, which they need more than ever. Since your announcement. international mobilization has increased so that a ceasefire will end the unbearable ordeal of the Palestinian residents of Gaza and the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. This too must “mr. president, if immediate sanctions be brought to your credit.

Your initiative is part of a long history of promises. recognitions and denials, which has always been made by exchanges of mail. On November 2. 1917, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Balfour brought in writing his support for the project of“Palestine establishment of a national home for the Jewish people”promising that “Nothing will be done that can infringe the civil and religious rights of non -Jewish communities existing in Palestine”. At the end of the first Israeli-Arab war on January 24. 1949, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Schuman recognized in writing “The provisional government of Israel”adding that “This decision does not prejudge the final delimitation by the United Nations “mr. president, if immediate sanctions of the territory on which it will exercise its authority”.

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