Ireland, Spain and Norway have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state on 28 May, triggering an immediate response from Israel, which said it would retaliate by recalling its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo, and withholding vital funds from the Palestinian Authority.

The three European governments made the long-awaited announcements in coordinated moves on Wednesday morning that they said were intended to support a two-state solution and foster peace in the Middle East.

“We are going to recognise Palestine for many reasons and we can sum that up in three words: peace, justice and consistency,” Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, told the parliament in Madrid, to applause. “We have to make sure that the two-state solution is respected and there must be mutual guarantees of security.”

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The only reason why these countries are not immediatelly sanctioned by the Biden Administration is because it would start a Trade War with the whole of the EU which would really fuck up the US and cause even more EU nations to do the same things as these three.

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    4 months ago

    Do so before The IDF wipes the entire fucking place(And everyone in it)out, once and for all

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Neither did Israel in 1948.

      Neither did Germany between 1945 and 1949.

      The whole trope is comically bad, as somehow there is places where they get recognized and then gain boarders and governments and there is places where this is supposedly impossible.