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.”
Hopefully this is a step toward dismantling the brutal apartheid regime that has colonised Palestine for 76 years.
… What?
THEY SAID HOPEFULLY THIS IS A STEP TOWARD DISMANTLING THE BRUTAL APARTHEID REGIME THAT HAS COLONIZED PALESTINE FOR 76 YEARS
Whadda ya, stoopid or sumpthin’?
They are saying they hope it will lead to the end of Israel.
That’s an intrepretation only possible if you ignore most of that post.
The logical interpretation after reading the entire post is that they hope this will lead to the end of Appartheid in Israel.
Or are you saying that there is no possible way for Israel to exist either than as an ultra racist etnostate that systemically discriminates against a part of its population based on their etnicity? Because that’s the only way you could logically claim that Israel without Appartheid would not exist.
Your interpretation is only possible if you didn’t read the post fully. It said it wanted to dismantle the apartheid regime, not to dismantle apartheid. The regime is the Israeli government.
Of course it’s the Israeli Government, same as the South African Appartheid government had to be dismantled to end Appartheid there, the Fascist Government in Greece had to be dismantled to bring Democracy there and the Communist Government in Poland had to be dismantled to bring Democracy there.
It’s hardly big fat news that the Zionists have to go for there to be peace in the region.
Since “country” is not at all the same as “regime”, wanting the end of a regime is not at all the same as wanting the end of the country, as the current status of all the countries I mentioned in my examples above (all alive and well) shows.
Your claim that people hoped for the end of Israel (the country) is not supported by you pointing out that those people want to dismantle the regime, because they’re quite different things and the latter absolutelly can be dismantled without the “end” of the former (in my examples above the countries didn’t even suffer, quite the contrary: all those countries are better of now that those regimes were dismantled than they were before).
Israel, which said it would retaliate by recalling its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo, and withholding vital funds from the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli government (and many but not all Israeli people) will seize on any excuse they can to punish the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people at this point. So tying such actions to the recent decisions of Ireland, Norway, Spain, or whoever else is very disingenuous.
They want all the Palestinians to suffer, and preferably disappear forever. These punitive steps are just a means to that end.
Let them take their ambassadors, we have been asking for their expulsion for months. This is a win win for us.
I think it was smart enough to let them do the withdrawal instead of us doing the expulsion tbh. They look like they’re having a tantrum now because of it.
You can’t have a two state solution without two states. Calm down lads.
That Russian ambassador though… I would very much like to see him kicked out. His justification of the invasion to Tubridy was disgusting to watch.
Vacated embassies? Sounds like the new Palestinian state has embassies now.
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.
Do so before The IDF wipes the entire fucking place(And everyone in it)out, once and for all
Ireland, Spain and Norway: thank you for your leadership
Great to see from these three countries.
I ❤️ Basedland! This is being human, recognizing in others the same struggle you went through and want to lend a helping hand.
DUBLIN — When Fatin Al Tamimi immigrated to Ireland in 1988, she felt like hers was the only hijab on the streets of Dublin. There weren’t many other Arabs or Muslims in Ireland at that time. “People thought I was a nun! They were always like, ‘Bless you, sister,’” the educator and activist recalls, laughing. But when her mostly white, Irish Catholic neighbors learned she was Palestinian, she says they were immediately supportive. "They’d say, ‘We know it all, we’ve been through that,’ " Al Tamimi says. “I guess because of history, the way they were oppressed and colonized by the British. It’s the same thing happening to the Palestinians.” - NPR
Israel just had to poke at the hive. Because russia’z invasion was going great. Now it’s time for consequences.
Reminds us of Trump and the consequences he is facing.
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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.
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