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EXCLUSIVE: A French official pushed back on claims by President Donald Trump that recognizing a Palestinian state amounts to handing Hamas a victory, insisting the initiative advanced at the United Nations this week is designed to marginalize the terror group and revive the two-state solution.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital at the UN General Assembly in New York, Pascal Confavereux, spokesperson for France’s Foreign Ministry, rejected suggestions that President Emmanuel Macron was trying to position himself as an “anti-Trump” leader on the global stage.

The spokesperson stressed that relations between Trump and Macron remain strong, despite their visible differences at the U.N. “The French president and President Trump have a

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