The Times of Israel reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his opposition to Palestinian statehood in a phone call Tuesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, the premier’s office said, days after his son hurled an obscenity at Macron for saying Paris could recognize a Palestinian state.

Macron, for his part, urged Netanyahu to halt the war and renew the flow of aid to Gaza, and said a two-state solution was critical to ensuring Israel’s security, according to a social media post by the French president. Neither Macron nor the Prime Minister’s Office mentioned Yair Netanyahu’s insult…

In a statement Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said Netanyahu told Macron that a Palestinian state would be a ‘huge prize for terror’ following the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, when the terror group stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

‘A Palestinian state that is established a few minutes from Israeli cities will be a stronghold for Iranian terror and that a large majority of the Israeli public firmly opposes this – and this is also his consistent and long-standing policy,’ said the PMO, referring to Iran’s support for regional terror proxies including Hamas…”