President Emmanuel Macron recently announced that France would become the first Western nation on the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state. 

The recognition of this fictional nation is as much about the growing Islamism on the domestic front as anything else. Macron didn’t use moral calculus here. He simply took a headcount. 

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