Belgium’s biggest party backs Macron’s plan to recognize Palestinian state

Belgium’s biggest party backs Macron’s plan to recognize Palestinian state

The positional shift follows growing criticism of the party’s silence on Israel’s war in Gaza.

The Prime Minister had not yet positioned himself on the Middle East conflict. ...

The N-VA supports the plan of French President Emmanuel Macron to recognize Palestine as a state. This was stated by N-VA chairwoman Valerie Van Peel in De Ochtend on Radio 1. In doing so, the N-VA is now also taking a clear position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a topic that has been sensitive within the federal government for some time. According to Van Peel, the plan will soon be discussed at the government table.

Prime Minister Bart De Wever is trying to defuse the potential conflict in the Arizona coalition over the horror in Gaza by adjusting communications and aligning himself with French President Emmanuel Macron's Palestinian-Israeli peace plan.

N-VA wants to adjust its party position on Israel and Palestine. But it is walking on eggshells. As a nationalist party, it once played the card of Palestinian self-government, today the Jewish votes in Antwerp are the most important.