Ireland, Spain and Norway have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state on 28 May, triggering an immediate response from Israel, which said it would retaliate by recalling its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo, and withholding vital funds from the Palestinian Authority.
The three European governments made the long-awaited announcements in coordinated moves on Wednesday morning that they said were intended to support a two-state solution and foster peace in the Middle East.
“We are going to recognise Palestine for many reasons and we can sum that up in three words: peace, justice and consistency,” Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, told the parliament in Madrid, to applause. “We have to make sure that the two-state solution is respected and there must be mutual guarantees of security.”
Hopefully this is a step toward dismantling the brutal apartheid regime that has colonised Palestine for 76 years.
… What?
They are saying they hope it will lead to the end of Israel.
Or at a minimum, getting Israel out of the internationally recognized Palestinian Territories (West bank, Gaza) and allowing Palestinians to self-rule.
No one said that, dipshit. Basically everyone wants either two-states based on 1967 borders or Israel to give Palestinians equal rights and create a single, secular democracy. The only people who want to “end Israel” or continue with illegal annexations are religious extremists with brains the size of olive pits.
No one said that, dipshit.
Dismantle verb
To get rid of a system or organization, usually over a period of time:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dismantle
Basically everyone wants either two-states based on 1967 borders or Israel to give Palestinians equal rights and create a single, secular democracy
Except this guy specifically said he hopes the current Israel is dismantled. At best they could be hoping that Israel changes into a better government, but I don’t think that’s their meaning.
dismantling the brutal apartheid regime
No where does that say dismantling Israel.
THEY SAID HOPEFULLY THIS IS A STEP TOWARD DISMANTLING THE BRUTAL APARTHEID REGIME THAT HAS COLONIZED PALESTINE FOR 76 YEARS
Israel, which said it would retaliate by recalling its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo, and withholding vital funds from the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli government (and many but not all Israeli people) will seize on any excuse they can to punish the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people at this point. So tying such actions to the recent decisions of Ireland, Norway, Spain, or whoever else is very disingenuous.
They want all the Palestinians to suffer, and preferably disappear forever. These punitive steps are just a means to that end.
Let them take their ambassadors, we have been asking for their expulsion for months. This is a win win for us.
I ❤️ Basedland! This is being human, recognizing in others the same struggle you went through and want to lend a helping hand.
DUBLIN — When Fatin Al Tamimi immigrated to Ireland in 1988, she felt like hers was the only hijab on the streets of Dublin. There weren’t many other Arabs or Muslims in Ireland at that time. “People thought I was a nun! They were always like, ‘Bless you, sister,’” the educator and activist recalls, laughing. But when her mostly white, Irish Catholic neighbors learned she was Palestinian, she says they were immediately supportive. "They’d say, ‘We know it all, we’ve been through that,’ " Al Tamimi says. “I guess because of history, the way they were oppressed and colonized by the British. It’s the same thing happening to the Palestinians.” - NPR
Ireland, Spain and Norway: thank you for your leadership
