Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 16 We left off last month at the strange head of the pro-Palestine march, seized by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. Heirs to the colonial rule that carved up the Middle East in the early 20 th century, the French president and British prime minister have now become supporters of the recognition of a Palestinian State. They have aligned themselves with Bin Salman, and his double — or triple — game: while the Saudi prince negotiates his petrodollars with Washington for the Abraham Accords , he reassures Paris with a display of support for the Palestinian National Authority and, with Islamabad, he secures himself Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella. It has since become clear that France and Britain sought to insert themselves into the folds and gaps of the American peace plan — twenty points that London helped to formulate through the back-room bargaining between former prime minister Tony Blair and Jared Kushner,...