French President Emmanuel Macron has earned a reputation as a rather mediocre statesman. His American counterpart, Donald Trump, known for his blunt style, recently declared that “Macron understands nothing about international issues.”

The numerous blunders signed off on by France’s president are nothing new, but it seems Macron has managed to break his own record with the Élysée Palace announcement of France’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state. This is a move that previous French presidents avoided, wanting not to damage the status quo and understanding that such a declaration contradicts principles of international law, where Palestinians do not meet the criteria for statehood.

Beyond the fact that nothing good awaits the Palestinians after the expected misguided declaration, it appears that Macron’s positions regarding Israel are increasingly losing touch with reality. From the grotesque French move to exclude Israeli defense industries from the Paris Air Show, which only highlighted their technological and product superiority over French industries; through the rising antisemitism and the need to appeal to the country’s growing Muslim base; to the aforementioned move, which has long been brewing in Paris.

The French parade of folly toward recognizing a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly next month increasingly appears, as time passes, to deserve the title of Black September. Through the opening Macron created, a series of European leaders (the German chancellor excepted) are calling for recognition of a Palestinian state — a move that demonstrates European lack of intellectual and ideological depth to challenge the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Establishing a state entity on our borders following the Oct. 7 atrocities not only fails to advance resolution of the conflict, but takes it backward and does not align with reality. The Hamas era in Gaza that ended (for now) with one of the most severe security disasters the world has known in recent decades, alongside the terrorism and governance challenges of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria, demonstrate how unprepared Palestinians are to assume the burden of state independence, with all that entails.

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