Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressed French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recognize a Palestinian state in a post on X. "I thank President Macron for his decision to give us a reason to finally apply sovereignty in the West Bank and throw the idea of establishing an Arab terror state in the heart of the Land of Israel into the dustbin of history once and for all. This will be our appropriate Zionist response to the unilateral coercion attempts by Macron and his partners," he said.