On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said that Israel has intelligence that whenever French President Emmanuel Macron “makes a statement in favor of a Palestinian state, Hamas hardens its heart regarding our hostages.” And leaders in the West recognizing a Palestinian state where there isn’t one and isn’t going to be one, “encourages Hamas to harden their position in negotiations.”
Leiter stated, “[W]hat Emmanuel Macron is representing is a shattered morality. We have clear intel. that, every time the French President makes a statement in favor of a Palestinian state, Hamas hardens its heart regarding our hostages.”
He continued, “There’s a direct link between the leaders in the West recognizing Palestinian statehood, where there’s no state and there’s not going to be a state, west of the Jordan River — it encourages Hamas to harden their position in negotiations. There’s a direct link in our hostages being kept in those tunnels to the French leader’s remarks regarding Palestinian statehood.”
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