Mixed feelings about this. I’m absolutely in favour of recognising Palestine as a new state, and fully supportive of a working two-state solution. But recognising them while they remain a dictatorship run by terrorist groups who’ve traditionally opposed a two-state solution seems like rewarding bad behaviour.
A guaranteed path to statehood by EU member states and the UN dependent on criteria like the renouncement of terrorism and the holding of free and fair elections seems like it would benefit the actual Palestinian people far more than this.
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Mixed feelings about this. I’m absolutely in favour of recognising Palestine as a new state, and fully supportive of a working two-state solution. But recognising them while they remain a dictatorship run by terrorist groups who’ve traditionally opposed a two-state solution seems like rewarding bad behaviour.
A guaranteed path to statehood by EU member states and the UN dependent on criteria like the renouncement of terrorism and the holding of free and fair elections seems like it would benefit the actual Palestinian people far more than this.