Wilders to Macron: Create New Palestinian State in Southern France — ‘Happy Suicide!’ 1/2
Joshua Klein27 Jul 2025
Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders delivered a fierce rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, sarcastically suggesting that southern France could become the new Palestinian state while declaring “Good luck Emmanuel Macron and France! Happy suicide!” in a provocative social media post that gained massive international attention.
Wilders’ post on X reached over 5 million views by Sunday, featuring a map of southern France alongside his sardonic suggestion that the region could serve as the new Palestinian homeland. “Here will be the new Palestinian State. Big parts of France are already islamic anyway,” the Party for Freedom (PVV) leader wrote. “The Netherlands will close its borders immediately.”
The Dutch politician’s response came after Macron announced Thursday that France would formally recognize Palestinian statehood at the next United Nations General Assembly meeting in September. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already condemned the French decision as a “surrender to terror,” warning that “a Palestinian state in these conditions would be a launch pad to annihilate Israel — not to live in peace beside it.”
In a separate post, Wilders accused France of rewarding terrorism, stating:“France rewards the Islamic terrorists of Hamas for their October 7th massacre by recognizing the ‘Palestinian state.’ The Netherlands must NEVER do that. Moreover, there is already a Palestinian state we have recognized, and that is Jordan.Jordan = Palestine!”
The “Jordan is Palestine” position has been central to Wilders’ approach to Middle East policy since his rise to prominence. Following his landslide electoral victory in 2023 — winning 37 of 150 parliamentary seats in what was described as one of the most significant political upheavals in the Netherlands since World War II — Arab states condemned his proposals to relocate Palestinians to Jordan.
Wilders has long maintained that the conflict between Palestinians and Israel could be resolved through recognition of Jordan as a Palestinian state. In 2016, he criticized then-President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, demanding they “stop bashing Israel about settlements” while proclaiming that “Judea and Samaria belong to Israel” and “Jordan = Palestine.”
The argument stems from historical and demographic realities: Jordan was created from 77 percent of the original British Mandate for Palestine, and a majority of its population is ethnically Palestinian. Many fled or were expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War, with Jordan being the only Arab country to fully integrate Palestinian refugees.
Known for his unwavering support of Israel, Wilders has consistently positioned the Jewish state as the West’s first line of defense against Islamic extremism.During a heated Dutch parliamentary debate earlier this year following the collapse of his coalition government, he warned: “If Jerusalem falls, Athens, Paris, or Amsterdam are next.”
“The fact that our mothers in the West can sleep peacefully is because the mothers of Israeli soldiers lie awake,” Wilders said during that parliamentary session, calling Israel “the only democracy in the Middle East” and stating that the Israel Defense Forces were “fighting our battle” against Iranian proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/27/wilders-to-macron-create-new-palestinian-state-in-southern-france-happy-suicide/