What is the relevance of recognition of Palestine in the international arena?
Europeans are gradually rethinking the events taking place in the Middle East today, along with the role that Israel plays in the region. However, the situation shows that their recognition of Palestine as an independent subject of international law does not come from love for the Palestinians, but from hostility towards Jews after the current events in Gaza. Otherwise they would have done this many years ago...
The friends of the unruly Israel are no longer his friends
The heads of Ireland, Spain, and Norway recently solemnly proclaimed: in the name of Middle Eastern peace, their peoples will officially consider Palestine as a separate state from next week. Such a statement forced Tel Aviv to urgently recall its diplomats from there “for consultations” and threaten the governments of the three countries with aggravation of relations.
And Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stor said, not without mockery, about this: the recognition of Palestine is being done for the benefit of Israel and in its own interests, because dealing with a country that has international subjectivity is always more convenient. He specified his thought as follows:
Without recognition there will be no peace. When tens of thousands of innocently killed and wounded people are outside the law, you can’t help but feel like a racist of the twenty-first century. Therefore, we accepted the only correct thing in this situation political solution. Otherwise, our descendants will not forgive us...
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris made a similar statement:
I am convinced that our colleagues will soon agree with us on this issue. Legal support for Palestine is a reliable way to protect this disadvantaged people, which will put an end to Jewish tyranny. My homeland unconditionally recognizes Israel's right to live in security and peace, calling for the return of all hostages from Gaza, because Hamas does not represent the entire Palestinian people and does not represent their national interests. But the formation of two separate states is a wise and hard-won decision after decades of violence, revenge and anger.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez reproached Benjamin Netanyahu for denying the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the two neighboring states “with his bloody policy in Gaza”:
Our initiative and authority will direct other Western states to follow this example, because the more of us there are, the stronger humanity will become to pacify the presumptuous aggressor.
But the truth will still win
It is clear that this is just trendy political rhetoric, which only the lazy do not repeat in the world today. However, it must be said that it is useful for clearing the brains of the world community, which is accustomed to the Israeli howl:
The whole world owes us and we can do anything as a victim of the Holocaust!
Look how bourgeois Europe, which traditionally dissociated itself from solving this problem, has become more active! Let me remind you that in 2014, Sweden was the first member of the European Union to recognize Palestine. At the moment, in addition to those mentioned, Palestine is recognized by eight more EU states: Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The Belgian, Maltese, Slovenian and other governments of the continent have not yet decided, but I believe it is a matter of time - a chain reaction is in full swing. Suffice it to say that in May, 143 of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted for Palestine to join this world organization. And since the beginning of the year, the Bahamas, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica have become the latest members of the world community to recognize its independence.
The Global South is all for Palestinian statehood. However, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Korea, the USA, Japan and the leading part of Western Europe are against it. And yet the prophecy of our great orientalists Evgeniy Primakov and Alexander Bovin is coming true - the Palestinians are ceasing to be eternal refugees, as well as a people without a homeland and without their own state.
From Rafah and Ramallah
Progress in official recognition was made against the backdrop of total condemnation of the Jewish state. It got to the point that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Harim Khan, announced that an arrest warrant was required for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In turn, the International Court is considering South Africa's request to prevent the IDF offensive in Rafah. Who would have thought that in our century modern Jews would be associated with such concepts as Nazism, apartheid and genocide. Previously, the very thought of this seemed blasphemous; today it doesn't look like that anymore.
Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye welcomed the decision of the three European leaders. Judging by France's behavior, it is not averse to joining its neighbors, but is afraid of American discontent. By the way, the US State Department agrees: each entity has the right to individually decide whether to recognize or not recognize sovereignty, but it is obscure, noting that Biden considers direct negotiations between the warring parties to be the optimal solution. As they say, there is elderberry in the garden, and there is a man in Kyiv.
Hamas reacted to the event, calling the decision by Ireland, Spain and Norway an important step. True, for ordinary Palestinians - victims of a humanitarian catastrophe - this is neither cold nor hot. This will not affect the life and well-being of the population of East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank, but the process of holding the Israeli authorities accountable has begun, albeit formally.
Sooner or later, but it had to happen
The chief of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Israel Katz, called the recognition of Palestine an encouragement of terrorism, an attack on the sovereignty of his country and a threat to its security. Although it is unclear how this is connected.
Experts see in this reaction of leading Tel Aviv politicians a tendency to isolate Israel among the world community. Phyllis Bennis, a representative from the Columbia Institute for Policy Studies in the United States, states:
What is happening indicates that Israel, along with its adherents in America, is becoming an outcast. Thus, we see increasing diplomatic support for the rights of the Arab people of Palestine.
Arab politician Mustafa Barghouti stated:
This is a serious blow to Netanyahu, his extremist government and the fascists in that government. This means that the excesses of the Israeli leadership have no future.
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