Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized a state of Palestine on Sunday, reversing decades of unwillingness to accept Palestinians as a sovereign nation until their conflict with Israel was permanently settled and breaking sharply with the United States.
The three nations became the biggest countries to recognize Palestine, acting in coordination with France, which is expected to make a similar declaration on Monday at the United Nations.
Their embrace of Palestinian statehood is momentous shift in long-standing diplomatic positions, and reflects the grave consternation in many capitals over Israel’s war in Gaza.
Britain, Canada and France. the first members of the G-7 major economies to take such a step, are some of the biggest traditional Israel supporters — and U.S. allies — to recognize Palestine.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the decisions in rapid succession Sunday.
The Sunday announcements were made a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, on Monday evening, and seemed timed, at least in part, to avoid issuing statements certain to anger the Israeli government as the country prepared for a major holiday.
Posted by John3262005
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Hell yeah
All at once
The meltdown from Bibi and his supporters is glorious
If Netanyahu wasn’t such a thug and a gangster this never would have happened, he and his brutal admitstration are entirely to blame.
Honestly I will not be surprising if soon it starts looking like the “Should food be a Human right” UN vote map with US and Israel as the only holdouts.
Disappointed in New Zealand tbh