Europe is truly a fucking plague on this earth
I think many, if not most, western nations including European ones are shitty.
Would be cool if other countries started doing the "Trump always chickens out" thing, but to pressure them to do good stuff instead of crashing the economy or bombing Iran.
Never saw that one coming /s
"Abandon"
In recent years and under Der Sturmer's government the closest the UK has ever come to recognising a Palestinian state is the cabinet saying that they would acknowledge a two-party state (bingo for outdated bullshit!) but even then ONLY if Israel approved it first. In other words... no reginition, ever, plus just straight up admitting policy is made by Israel.
The UK is starting from the point of being an active and enthisiastic participant in genocide. Not in terms of the shameful political and legal support or interference that would already be a crime. But direct military and financial support. Targeting flights. Intelligence that helps Israel kill journalists and aid workers, some of them British citizens. SAS on the ground. Sheepdipped British forces. We even passed laughably, awfully bullshit arms restrictions and then just lied and broke them anyway. We charge journalists and activists with terror charges, seemingly based on Israel's direction, and then deny their right to fair trial or (few) rights under British law by sharing their information, case progress, and legally protected details with Israel. And that's just the shit that's openly out there, mostly ignored but occassionally acknowledged by mainstream media.
The idea that you can do any of this, never mind all of it, and even pretend to support a Palestinian state is an unhinged fucking lie and everyone telling it in order to distance themselves from the very things they've spent almost two years (or far far more) supporting deserves whatever comes their way and should beg for a jury in the Hague as far more than they deserve.
fuck Europe
it will now focus on outlining steps towards recognition
This is like two degrees removed, they haven't even defined the steps (aka unrealistic requirements) for Palestine to be recognised
What steps even are there. Seems like there’s one step, recognizing Palestine as a state with Hamas as its government. What steps do you need to define.
By "steps" they mean "imposing ludicrous conditions on Palestine" such as releasing all genocidal war prisoners and stuff like that
I suspected it was a bait and switch meant to lower public grumblings
And since they won't do it now all the EU countries that said they would only do it at the EU level won't do it either
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