The UN Resolution 194 is the same UN resolution that the PA quotes as guaranteeing the rights of over 5.5 million so-called ”refugees” to flood Israel, commented Jerusalem-based watchdog Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

Since Israel’s population is just over 9 million people, of whom 2 million are Israeli Arabs, in practice, what the French are suggesting is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish country, PMW said.

In a meeting with PLO Executive Committee Secretary and PLO Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat, the French Consul-General, René Troccaz, defined his country’s positions, which include support for the Palestinian Authority’s radical political demands, such as the call to release all terrorist Palestinian prisoners including mass murderers and conditioning any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement on flooding Israel with millions of Palestinian refugees,  according to a report published in the official PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.

Troccaz is based in Jerusalem since September 2019.

“During a meeting between, the French Consul General emphasized his country’s absolute rejection of annexation and demanded to cancel it and begin a credible peace process on the basis of international law, the international bodies, and the defined agreements and sources of authority in such a way that will guarantee the end of the occupation, the realization of the independence of the State of Palestine whose capital is East Jerusalem within the 1967 borders, the resolution of the permanent status issues – foremost among them the issue of the refugees based on UN Resolution 194 and the release of the prisoners, ” the paper wrote.

The UN Resolution 194 is the same UN resolution that the PA quotes as guaranteeing the rights of over 5.5 million so-called “refugees” to flood Israel,commented Jerusalem-based watchdog Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

Since Israel’s population is just over 9 million people, of whom 2 million are Israeli Arabs, in practice, what the French are suggesting is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish country, PMW said.

‘’Next, France believes that in order to achieve peace, Israel must agree to the “release of the prisoners.” These prisoners include mass murderers responsible for multiple terror attacks, such as Abdullah Barghouti, murderer of 67, Ibrahim Hamed, murderer of 54, and Hassan Salame, murderer of 44, and hundreds of other murderers,’’ it added.

‘’It is unclear why France would believe that the release of mass murderers is a prerequisite to Israeli-Palestinian peace. These terrorists slaughtered hundreds of civilians, many of whom held foreign citizenship. Demanding the release of terrorist murderers is not only a call to undermine justice, but is a direct expression of support for terrorists.’’

According to Palestinian Media Watch, shortly before Troccaz met with Erekat, the PA published its demands in anticipation of Israel’s decision to apply its civilian law to certain parts of Judea and Samaria. ‘’France’s position, as expressed by Troccaz, is nothing more than France adopting the entire PA position and narrative and now conditioning achieving peace on Israel committing national suicide,’’ noted PMW.

Palestinian Media Watch sent a request to the French Consulate General asking to confirm that the quote in the official PA daily did indeed reflect Troccaz’s statements in the meeting with Erekat. The French Consulate General has not yet responded.

The Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Shimon Samuels, who is based in Paris, sent a letter to French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, expressing “grave concern regarding the report about the French Consul General statements’’.

The Centre questioned the Foreign Minister whether “your Consul General’s stated positions are those of France?”

“If they are not, we urge you to recall Mr. Troccaz for ultra vires misuse of his duties… If they are, we protest at an outrageous one-sided policy,” wrote Samuels.

“The apparent delusional policy of Mr. Troccaz will not bring peace, but may encourage further jihadist terror on French soil,” he claimed.