UK, Canada and Australia announce formal recognition of Palestine, with wave of Israel’s allies to follow ....
France says 'recognition' was not a reward for Hamas, since the terrorist group wanted an Islamic state and the destruction of Israel.
Both these have been avoided, it claims and added:
a two-state solution would be better !!
Palestinian state will not happen, asserts Netanyahu
Israel “categorically rejects” the recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Kingdom “and some other countries,” says the Foreign Ministry.
The formal declaration of recognition by the UK, Canada, and Australia “further destabilizes the region and undermines the chances of achieving a peaceful solution in the future,” says the ministry on X.
Israel says recognition “not only rewards the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust by a terror organization that is calling and acting for the annihilation of Israel, but also ......
solidifies the support Hamas enjoys”.
The US and Israel have been boycotting the meetings leading up to Monday’s UN conference on a two-state solution.
At heart of their difference is the Israeli belief that the Palestinian Authority (PA), led by the 86-year-old president, Mahmoud Abbas, can never be a credible partner for peace.
The US state department has tried to block Abbas from speaking from the rostrum at the UN in New York by denying US visas to the PA, a move that triggered a 145 to five vote at the UN general assembly to allow him to speak via a video link.
“I have a clear message to those leaders who recognize a Palestinian state after the horrific massacre on October 7 — you are handing a huge reward to terror,” says Netanyahu in a video statement.
“It will not happen,” he continued.
“A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan.” Netanyahu boasts that under his leadership, Israel “doubled Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria — and we will continue on this course.”
“The response to the recent attempt to force a terrorist state upon us in the heart of our land will be given after my return from the United States,” says Netanyahu. “Wait.” Members of his coalition are pushing openly for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, especially the Jordan Valley.
A wave of Israel’s allies are announcing their recognition of the state of Palestine, as part of a wider manoeuvre designed to ostracise Hamas and challenge attempts by the Israeli government to erase the chance of a Palestinian homeland.
Countries joining the list of 147 UN states that recognise Palestine are
Australia,
Canada,
Belgium,
France,
the UK, Luxembourg,
Portugal, Malta and possibly New Zealand and Lichtenstein.
Australia, Canada and the UK formally announced their moves on Sunday.
António Guterres, the UN secretary general, urged states not to be intimidated by Israel’s threats to annex parts of the West Bank.
But ministers admit decisions have been triggered by the mounting global horror at Israel’s strategy in Gaza, and specifically Israel’s plans to approve new settlements in the part of the West Bank known as the E1 corridor that would cut the territory in two and sever its links with east Jerusalem.
At the centre of the French plan, now fully endorsed by Arab states, is to make recognition part of a wider process, including a reformed, democratically elected Palestinian Authority that in the event of a ceasefire comes to supersede a disarmed and dismantled Hamas in Gaza.
Germany, Italy and some of the Baltic states are the biggest holdouts to recognition, but pressure is rising within the Italian coalition government to risk the ire of the US.
Macron, identified by Israel as the galvanising force behind the surge in recognitions, went on Israel’s Channel 12 to warn “the approach of your government and some ministers especially is to destroy the possibility of a two-state solution.”
He said “an emergency had been created” by the building of new major settlements that meant the world “is at the last minute before proposing two states will become totally impossible”.
He insisted recognition was not a reward for Hamas, since the terrorist group wanted an Islamic state and the destruction of Israel, something a two-state solution would preclude.
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