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22 May 2024 14:53 GMT
The majority of countries in the world – 143 – already recognize the sovereignty of the Palestinian people.
More and more countries are inclined to recognize the sovereignty of the Palestinian people. Thus, this Wednesday, Spain, Norway and Ireland announced that they will recognize Palestine as a sovereign State on May 28.
Most countries in the world —143— they already recognize the Palestinian State. Additionally, earlier this month, 143 of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly they voted in favor of a resolution recommending that the Security Council favorably reconsider Palestine’s accession to the body as a member and give it more rights in the United Nations.
Meanwhile, the US is Israel’s greatest ally and the main world economy that does not recognize Palestine as a State. In Europe, the countries closest to Tel Aviv, which also supply it with weapons and do not recognize Palestinian sovereignty, are Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom. Canada, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand also do not recognize Palestine.
A symbolic decision?
The recognition of Palestine is above all a political decision, writes L’Orient-Le Jour. According to the media, recognition of the Palestinian State remains mainly symbolicsince this alone cannot provide fair and equitable solutions to issues such as borders, security, the return of refugees, the status of Jerusalem, access to water or economic relations.
Experts believe that as long as Palestine remains an occupied and fragmented territory, in the absence of pressure and sanctions against violations committed by Israel, even mass recognition of the Palestinian state will have little effect on the daily life of the population.
“A tangible step towards a viable political path”
In this context, the Palestinian-American lawyer Zaha Hassan express elDiario.es that the recognition of Palestine “is reaffirming international law, because it recognizes that Israel does not have any right over any territory beyond the border of June 5, 1967.”
According to Guardian“perhaps most significant is how the new recognitions point to the erosion of American ‘ownership’ of the peace process between Israel and Palestine since the period of the talks and the Oslo peace agreement” of the 1990s.
For his part, Hugh Lovatt, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, declared that the recognition of Palestine is “a tangible step towards a viable political path leading to Palestinian self-determination”.
What does it mean for Israel?
The British newspaper highlights that the US, the United Kingdom and other countries began to impose a sanctions regime against violent Israeli settlers and the far-right groups that support them. And now, three important European states have unilaterally decided to recognize Palestinian statehood.
Although there remains a disconnect in Israeli society over international distaste for its government and the way it has been carrying out its military campaign in Gaza, Israelis are also aware that their country is being treated “more and more like an outcast” and it is “increasingly isolated diplomatically”the article points out.
This caused, in part, growing fractures within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own Cabinet, which raises doubts about how long his Government can survive, the media concludes.
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