Nobel and General Assembly
Trump’s speech at the United Nations was a raging success -- at presenting an embarrassing portrait of himself. [And so] French President Emmanuel Macron fired back at U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday over his repeated desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize, challenging him to bring the war in Gaza to an end.
And, a day after leading a landmark United Nations General Assembly summit on Palestinian statehood, Macron blasted Trump’s assertion that recognizing a Palestinian state was “a reward” for Hamas.
The French president said that it was “totally wrong” that recognition was a gift to Hamas, during an interview with French channel BFMTV. Instead he called on Trump to put pressure on Israel if he wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize.
“I see a U.S. president who is active, who wants peace… who wants the Nobel Peace Prize. But the Nobel Peace Prize is possible only if you stop this war,” Macron said on Tuesday.
“We must put pressure on the government of Israel so that they… stop this war and obtain the release of the 48 hostages,” he continued. “It’s possible, nothing is pre-ordained.”
Western states recognizing a Palestinian state has not stopped Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israeli forces continue to advance in densely populated Gaza City.
During his own address to the U.N. gathering earlier Tuesday, Trump repeated his claim he had “ended seven un-endable wars” and that everyone said he “should get the Nobel Peace Prize.” Trump also says Ukraine could turn back Putin’s invasion, but it’s all empty talk to divert attention from Trump’s failure to impose the promised “severe consequences” on Putin for refusing to negotiate a ceasefire.
Macron and Trump appeared to clash during the U.N. annual gathering on Gaza and on the relevance of the United Nations, but they had a friendly exchange in person on the sidelines of the U.N.’s annual gathering.
“I hear France is doing well, and you’re doing well… apart from the occasional problem of wine,” he said, with reference to disagreements over U.S. tariffs on EU goods. “Emmanuel has actually helped with a couple of wars, settling seven wars,” he added.
Asked about Macron’s comments on Trump’s desire to get the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump merely said that it was “altogether” about ending the war in Gaza and Ukraine.
The French president’s comments came as European leaders grow increasingly frustrated with Trump’s apparent reluctance to impose sanctions on Russia over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine or put pressure on Israel to end military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Macron in turn has angered the U.S. and Israel with his push to get Western countries to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations annual gathering this week. On Monday, Macron himself recognized the Palestinian state, after the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Portugal made the same move.
Trump slammed this wave in favor of recognition as “a reward for these horrible atrocities, including Oct. 7.”
Trump also said that he was “deeply engaged” in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza, but that the militant group Hamas had “repeatedly rejected reasonable offers to make peace.”
In his interview after Trump’s speech, Macron countered that recognizing a Palestinian state was a way to “isolate” Hamas because it bolsters the Palestinian Authority and encourages it to make reforms.
In his speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Macron also delivered a vigorous defense of the U.N. as a conflict-solving institution, a message very much at odds with Trump’s earlier attack on the global body. The French president said “more than ever” the world needed the United Nation’s “the spirit of cooperation.”
“We are the United Nations, and we must not give in to the spirit of defeat because the world is here in front of us,” he said.
Earlier, Trump had attacked the U.N. as an irrelevant body incapable of resolving wars, even criticizing it for a broken escalator and malfunctioning teleprompter.
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If you feel powerless to help Gaza, you still has a choice: donate. When so much of what exists is false, authenticity is a powerful weapon we can wield that the state never could. So if you feel lost, hopeless, depressed, angry and afraid, I implore you to return - again and again - to the feeling of love that exists within you that brought you here in the first place. It is only through this that we can remake the world. To redress Gaza’s famine, displacement, and destruction, independent and impartial humanitarian organizations - UN agencies, international and national NGOs - must be allowed to deliver relief at scale. To salvage Gaza’s people from the devastation inflicted by Israel, it must be unified with the West Bank to form an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, not to be parceled and colonized by the former.
Please keep donate Gaza especially if you, as reader, has [background] International Relation [whatever universities]. IR Graduate means [you must, at least] get some semester [about] studying Middle East [in macro, not specifically Gaza].
We need more people to share fundraisers instead of only talking about Gaza. Some people think that those in Gaza don’t need money but that’s wrong. Almost everyone lost their source of income while essentials, food & medicine get sold for astronomical prices. So I put my attempt in all social media as I can, in twitter / X, in substack [since October 2023 I put link donation], in bluesky or bsky, in threads, in instagram.
Link to donate World Food Programme - Palestine appeal: click here
[Daniel Brühl]
Most campaign shared or circulated in social media are for REAL people in Gaza. They’re legit. There are a lot of small campaigns for struggling families. This is their only lifeline. By donating & sharing, you are literally making history and alleviating part of their pain
Please do not rely on me alone for sharing your campaign. I’m only 1 person and sometimes I’m not online which is unreliable. I never ignore anybody on purpose but I have a very limited capacity & very little energy and time.
[Refaat Alareer IF I MUST DIE] Refaat Alareer was extremely hungry, November 2023, days before killed by Israel airstrike. If November 2023 already [one-by-one Gazan] extremely hungry, imagine September 2025 or almost 2 years genocide by Israel in Gaza.
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