Sure, but what kind of action does it imply? North Korea is recognized by (almost?) every country too, but that doesn't mean anyone is hurrying to provide aid to starving North Koreans. Similarly the international recognition of Azerbaijan and Armenia did nothing to prevent one from taking Nagorno-Karabach from the other earlier this year.

So "recognizing the Palestinian state" is all good and well, but unless anyone also gets off their butts and actually does something then the situation in Gaza won't actually change.

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estomagordo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, recognizing Palestine should be a very simple and uncontroversial thing. And yet.

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azangru 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Sure, but what kind of action does it imply?

A BBC article from a couple of days ago lists about 150 countries that have recognized a Palestinian state, dating back to 1988 (which is, btw, when North Korea recognized it). I don't know what kind of action it implies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgp5z1vvj5o

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brookst 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s noble of you to say that countries might as well not recognize Palestine because it will do no good, but by and large the Palestinians have a different view and see such recognition as a first step.

	▲	WJW 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is not at all what my previous comment said. I said that it might be a first step, but that first step doesn't matter if no further steps are forthcoming.

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lupusreal 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Rabid zionists don't want people to recognize Palestine because if Palestine doesn't in some sense exist then in some sense that erases the crime zionists are committing in eradicating Palestine.

It's crazy but that's how it works. Refusal to recognize Palestine is a form of dehumanization, one of the key stages of genocide.