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  • It's shameful. The recognition of Palestine should have taken place years ago. Israel has been committing terrorism on Gaza and the West Bank for ages. Europe should have ceased all relations with Israel the moment the IDF started indiscriminately bombing residential areas and refugee camps. Children were bombed to pieces, for God's sake. Europe –ALL of Europe has blood on its hands, and it will never wash away.

  • It's so good that these countries are finally showing a bit of support for the Palestinian people, but unfortunately I think this is a sloppy way to do it that will likely end in failure.

    To recognize a state of Palestine, you must define it's borders. What will those borders be? So far these politicians have refused to say, it is much safer for them to be vague and noncommittal.

    Surely it would not be the pre-1948 borders, that would literally wipe Israel off the map.

    Ideally it would be post-1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. According to the UN this is the most just two-state division. But it is also a plan that has been proposed and dismissed for many decades. Israel would need to be forced to accept a plan like this.

    One could also consider the horrific possibility that they will use some post-2005 borders, this would make the Palestinian "state" a series of small unconnected bantustans. This would probably end the genocide, but it would also give international approval to the apartheid.