(As this was taking place yesterday, someone shot up a country club yelling 'Free Palestine'... hmmmmm)
from Mondoweiss
The United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, and Australia officially recognized the State of Palestine in a series of separate but coordinated statements on Sunday, September 21. Other European and Western nations, including France, Belgium, New Zealand, and several other key allies of Israel, are expected to join the chorus of recognitions at today’s UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The summit is based on a joint Saudi-French initiative to revive a two-state solution called “the New York Declaration,” which was first issued at a conference on September 12. The conference was boycotted by the U.S, which opposed the summit.
In Sunday’s initial announcements of recognition, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that “we are acting to keep alive the possibility of peace and a two-state solution,” adding that the ongoing Israeli bombardment campaign in Gaza, as well as its starvation of the Palestinian population, were “utterly intolerable.” Starmer also decried Israel’s acceleration of settlement building in the West Bank, which he said has caused the “fading” of hope in the two-state solution.
In light of the wave of announcements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s response would come after he meets with U.S. President Trump on September 27, adding that he has “worked for years to prevent the establishment of this state of terror in the face of enormous internal and external pressure.”...
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