Days ago the governments of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and Portugal recognized Palestine as a state in response to growing international disgust with the U.S. and Israel as enthusiastic promoters of Palestinian mass slaughter. The political significance of the development is indicated by the fact that the British and Canadian governments are part of the group of the six most industrialized Western governments, and both, along with Australia and New Zealand, are members of the first circle of strategic allies with whom Washington cooperates in intelligence matters and shares top secret information, an Anglo-sphere spy alliance officially designated Five Eyes that does not even obey the laws of its own member countries according to Edward Snowden. The fact that even these high achievers in lawlessness cannot abide Israel's conduct shows that international support for the Jewish state has collapsed.
Obviously, the recognition of Palestine by these Western countries is more a face saving gesture than a genuine effort to end the wholesale massacre in progress in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but it would not have occurred at all absent the growing public pressure against Israel's extermination campaign. While Canada, Great Britain, and Australia recognized Israel in 1949 and Portugal did in 1977, none of them had been willing to grant similar recognition to Palestine, in spite of the fact that since 1974 the U.N. established Palestinian rights to self-determination, independence, and national sovereignty, as well as their right to return to homes and properties from which they had been forcibly uprooted.
International outrage is at fever pitch, not only because of Israel's extermination campaign in Gaza, but also due to its ferocious and unjustified attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Qatar, Yemen, and the West Bank. Obviously, Israel will continue to attack whenever and wherever and whomever it likes as long as it enjoys Washington's backing, which state of affairs is finally being recognized by nearly everyone as the principal threat to world peace.
Though a diplomatic defeat for Israel, the declarations of "recognition" of a non-existent Palestinian state do nothing to stop the ongoing strafing and bombing of a deliberately starved people, carried out not in secret but right in front of the world's eyes for nearly two full years now, with no end in sight. The idea that a genocidal Jewish state awash in the instruments of mass murder can live in peace and security side by side with a "sovereign" state it openly despises and will never stop trying to eliminate, is quite frankly preposterous.
Just as apartheid South Africa was eliminated only due to world pressure, Israel's Holy Apartheid will be eliminated only when there is overwhelming international pressure determined to make that happen.
Symbolic gestures by fearful politicians attempting to appease the wrath of public opinion accomplish nothing.
Source: "Great Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal Recognize Palestinian State," La Jornada (Spanish), September 22, 2025
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