Much of politics today is threatening, cajoling, and then doing nothing.
When Emmanuel Macron isn’t busy being slapped around by his wife/teacher/legal guardian or watching Paris go up in Les Flames, he is hectoring Israel about its war in Gaza and the need for a Palestinian state. It would seem strange that a battered president with a major immigrant problem would spend his time worrying about Israel and its actions, but Macron realizes that France’s future is Islamic. He is making all of the right noises about Israel fighting too hard in Gaza and that the Palestinians deserve—whatever that means—their own state. I want to buy Mike Huckabee a beer, as he suggested that Macron give the Palestinians a piece of the French Riviera. Now, that’s diplomacy.