Momentum Is Building To Recognize A Palestinian State

Momentum is building among free nations to recognize a Palestinian state. In the past, 147 nations of the total of 193 UN members have symbolically recognized a Palestinian state even though in actuality it does not exist. Now, significant nations are saying they will do that same next month during a UN General Assembly. They are the France, who has been leading this momentum, the UK, and Canada. Germany and Italy refrain from doing so, which is understandable due to their evil involvement in WWII which resulted in the death of six million Jews. They therefore are scared of opposing Israel.

Now, other nations are joining this new momentum, including Australia, Portugal, and Luxembourg, and they are further calling for a revival of a two-state solution.

ISRAEL PALESTINE MAP
ChrisO’s modification of 2004 UN Map of Israel

Israel Says Recognizing Palestine Rewards Terrorism

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ministers in his coalition government argue against these nations and others about to declare their recognition of a Palestinian state by saying it would reward the terrorism inflicted by Hamas in attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused Israel to launch its ongoing war in Gaza.

I’m surprised I don’t read in the media what I think is the obvious and supreme argument against this allegation of rewarding terrorism. It is that this Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for 77 years, thus since Israel became reestablished as a nation in 1948 (actually, the conflict is older than that), yet throughout all that time in which there was no war between Israel and Palestinians Israel continued its resistance against the creation of a Palestinian state. So, I think a reverse argument can be made which is this: nations not declaring their recognition of a Palestinian state rewards the status quo engineered all this time by Israel, that after 77 years there still is no Palestinian state.

Trump Is Using Tariffs as a Political Weapon

U.S. President Trump has the world in the stew with the implementation of his excessive tariffs being imposed on almost all nations with the dubious claim that the world has been “ripping us off” since U.S. foreign trade exports are economically less than our imports. But that, to me, mere reflects that we are a richer country that can buy more goods than other countries can. So, Trump’s outlook is naive.

Famous American investor Warren Buffet says Trump’s tariffs are to some degree a waging of “war” against other countries, and he indicates they will not have a positive outcome. That is why he has accumulated up a huge $350 billion cash pile for his company Berkshire Hathaway.

Trump Threatens Higher Tariffs about Palestine

Now, Trump is using is tariffs as a political weapon. He has raised the tariff percentage against Brazil because he disagrees with them ousting their past president. Now, Trump is likewise threatening to impose greater tariffs against these free countries, many of them U.S. allies, who are declaring they will soon recognize a Palestinian state.