The international community is giving a boost to the recognition of the Palestinian State with the recent decision of a dozen countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia, to do so within the framework of the UN General Assembly held this week in full genocide of Israel in the Gaza Strip. More than 80% of UN members (157 of 193) recognize the Palestinian state compared to the 36 that are still resisting.
Of those who have not yet taken that step, a third are European. Eleven European Union countries do not recognize the Palestinian State, although the common position of the community club is the solution of the two states as a form of lasting peace in the Middle East for decades. It is also what the UN also establishes for an overwhelming majority in each of its resolutions.
“The European Union maintains its firm will to find a lasting and sustainable peace based on the solution of two states. The European Union is willing to contribute to all the initiatives aimed at reaching this solution and asks all the parties that refrain from taking actions that undermine their viability,” they collect the conclusions of the last meeting of the European Council, which had to be negotiated, that yes, almost word for the word. Criticisms of Israel in much of the European capitals.
Berlin leads the great countries that oppose recognition now. “Germany does not raise the question of recognition of the Palestinian State. It should be one of the last steps towards the solution of the two states,” said Foreign Minister Friedrich Merz, at a press conference in Moncloa with Pedro Sánchez last Thursday. Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland have not taken that step either.
“We have a history of diplomatic relations with these countries over 100 years. Countries that do not recognize Palestine have no right to talk about the two states, which is the only one that supports the international community. The only basis that supports the creation of Israel is a resolution of the general assembly in which there was also talk of a Palestinian state,” he tells Eldiario.es the ex -analysis of the organization for the organization of Palestine (OLP) and Palestinian political analyst Xavier Abu Eid.
“The Palestinian catastrophe part of Europe and is a consequence of European colonialism,” adds this expert, which criticizes the position of countries such as Germany or Austria for its historical debt by the Holocaust: “We reject the logic of those countries that seek to compensate for debts of the past with the Palestinian lives of the present. They have to explain why peace negotiations are a condition for the recognition of the Palestinian State Recognition by itself is an obstacle to peace negotiations. ”
USA, Israel's courage against Palestine
The first major wave of recognition occurred in 1988, coinciding with the proclamation of independence made by Yaser Arafat in November of that year since exile in Algiers and previously approved by the National Palestinian Council. The vast majority of Arab, African and Asian states recognized the Palestinian state against the oppression and occupation of Israel.
In that group are European countries that were part of the orbit of the USSR, such as Poland, Bulgaria, Romania or Ukraine, among others. A good part of them, like the Hungarian of the Ultra -Red Viktor Orbán, would be today far from that position, judge of their proximity to Tel Aviv.
We had to wait more than two decades for the Palestinian State to receive a second international impulse. In the 2010, coinciding with the request in 2011 of entry into the UN. That request has been vetoed, which is Israel's great courage in the Security Council, and, of course, does not recognize the Palestinian state. The vast majority of Latin America made recognition in 2011, with the exception of Colombia, which waited until 2018; Mexico, which took the step in 2023; And Panama, who is the only one who has not done so.
The last wave of recognition began in May last year with the decision of Slovenia, which followed Spain, Ireland and Norway, when the Gazati victims were counted by tens of thousands and Benjamín Netanyahu did not give signs of stopping the massacre. A year later, in the framework of the United Nations, another dozen countries, many of them with enormous weight, such as the United Kingdom, France and Canada, which are part of the G7, have joined. Also Australia, Portugal, Belgium, Malta, Luxembourg, Andorra and San Marino.
Despite this support, which they have also stated with the celebration of a high -level international conference for the peaceful solution of the Palestine issue and the implementation of the Biestatal solution housed at the UN headquarters, the US continues to put diplomatic obstacles. The Trump administration has denied the visas to the representatives of the Palestinian authority.
The recognition of the Palestinian State, in addition, does not understand political ideologies, despite the fact that in Spain the matter was politicized, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo accused Pedro Sánchez of “empowering Hamas with that decision, that the government took at the same time as Ireland, a country governed by the right. Now they have been the Portuguese Luís Montenegro, of the European PP family, the French liberal Emmanuel Macron or the labor Keir Starmer, among others, those who have given that push. And, in this case, the PP of Feijóo has said that “it seems very good.”
In any case, the recognition of the Palestinian State in the framework of the General Assembly, as well as diplomatic movements, seek to raise the pressure, but do not pass from symbolism.
“The recognition is important, but it must be put in context. It reaffirms a will to the existence of the Palestinian State and generates an irreversible political reality that for an Israel committed to ethnic clean that the genocide will not stop.
“It is important to assume a road map, as Spain did, which includes sanctions and an embargo on weapons, in addition to the acceptance of the resolutions of the international courts,” he concludes.