Mark Sachs and David F. Siegel

French President Emmanuel Macron recently announced his intentions to recognize a Palestinian state in September, and in pursuit of that goal, France and Saudi Arabia hosted a conference in New York to discuss that possibility. It took the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, less than a weekend to change his position from withholding support for a Palestinian state to holding his own press conference announcing his intentions to recognize a Palestinian state should Israel fail to heed his conditions.

The international community would better serve Palestinians and Israelis by focusing on the prerequisites for sustainable peace, rather than engaging in counterproductive and symbolic gestures.

Macron himself issued a list of essential precondi

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