I'm John Baxter with Judy Dempsey, the very generous editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe

for the Inert Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

She's in Berlin.

We're observing the visits by leaders of European sovereign states to Jerusalem in these

last hours.

I mentioned that a Dutch Prime Minister, Ruti, was in Jerusalem, the Greek Prime Minister

was in Jerusalem.

Right now, the President of France is in Jerusalem or near to a greeting Mr. Netanyahu,

but most importantly, making a recommendation.

Emmanuel Macron, I'm following the London reporting, has called for the International

Coalition Fighting the Islamic State Group to be expanded to also fight Hamas.

The French President proposed that countries fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria should

also fight against Hamas and Gaza.

He added that France and Israel share terrorism as their common enemy after meeting Israeli

Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The French President is a very confident man, Judy, and I watched his speech the night

before that vast demonstration that blustered public in Paris in defiance of the directive

of the central government not to gather in provocative meetings.

But I watched his speech and he very clearly used the word terrorism.

Seeing outlier for European Union, the Union is speaking his mind.

No, the European Union is just so divided over this and they took a long time to put Hamas

on the terrorist list, just suppressing.

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