By Micah D. Halpern

I've Been Thinking:
On Friday French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. They had a very friendly and positive meeting.
Sources from inside the office of president Sarkozy said that the French are in favor of the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and it seems like France will come out in vociferous support of the declaration.
In response to questions following their meeting, Abbas said that it would be illogical for the United States not to support the Palestinian declaration. The Palestinian leader pointed out that, by now, most of the world is in clear support including the Western Europeans. Abbas said that the French president gave him clear and absolute support for the move to declare a Palestinian state.
In essence the only people on an international level who are not in favor of the intended Palestinian declaration of statehood, the only countries to actually reject the idea of a declaration, are the United State and Israel.
And pressure is really building on the US and Israel to buckle.

Micah@MicahHalpern.com