🤘 December 3, 2023: Gatestone Institute > There are whispers in the corridors of power that Belgium, like Norway and Spain, is preparing to recognize a “Palestinian State”.

by Drieu Godefridi
December 3, 2023 at 5:00 am

This move seems questionable, on both legal and political grounds.

The first conditions for recognizing a state are territory and state authority. International law defines a sovereign state as an established territorial unit, within which its laws apply to a permanent population, and which is constituted by institutions through which it exercises authority and effective power.

In the case of a “Palestinian State”, there is no territory on which even the Palestinians agree. Indeed, the charter of Hamas — designated as a terrorist organization by many countries in the West, and which has reigned unchallenged in the Gaza Strip since 2007 when it forcibly expelled the Palestinian Authority, in part by throwing its members off 15-storey buildings — calls for the “liberation” of “every inch of Palestine” through jihad.
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