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Some officials are convinced to be on the moral side long before entering politics.
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I’m on the side of Israel. I’ve been on the side of Israel, really, my whole life, and we’re going to get a solution, and it’s going to be a solution that’s good for everybody.”
Trump: “I’ve been on the side of Israel really my whole life.”
Trump To Macron: 'I've always been on Israel's side'. Presidents Trump and Macron held a joint press conference where they clashed over the French initiative to declare a Palestinian state. Yoni Kempinski. Sep 25, 2025, 10:24 AM (GMT+3)
At a joint press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron offered contrasting views on recent moves by several countries to recognize a Palestinian state.
Asked if such recognition was “a gift to Hamas,” Trump replied:
“Well, I think it honors Hamas and you can’t do that because of October 7th. You just can’t do that. But we want our hostages back and we don’t want them back in, you know, ones and twos and take the next two years to do it. We were the ones that got the hostages back. And I always said, I told Steve, I told Marco, I was always saying the last hostages are going to be the toughest ones. But you can’t honor them by doing anything like you suggest. All you can do is say we want our hostages back and we want we want the war to end. We’re going to want it to end."
"You always have to remember people forget October 7th was one of the most savage days in the history of the world. There’s never been anything like that. We’re talking about babies being sliced in half. You’re talking about young children having their heads chopped off. You can’t forget that.”
Macron acknowledged Trump’s point but defended the recognition decisions by other governments...
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no one needs to buy Trump’s support for Israel, considering he’s been an on-the-record vocal champion of the Jewish state for nearly 40 years.
When Trump this week met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with French president Emmanuel Macron — who had just rewarded Hamas with unilateral recognition of an imaginary Palestinian state — he made his position known.
“Well, I have to say that I’m on the side of Israel,” Trump said. “I’ve been on the side of Israel really my whole life.”
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