[Horffupolde]

What does “recognizing Palestine” even mean?

[willvarfar]

This is breaking news over the last few days. Some of the coverage https://www.ft.com/content/2fe65dbf-65a5-41f3-aaab-5661c0146...

[WJW]

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.

[_DeadFred_]

Palestinians don't 'recognize' the Palestine that is being recognized. The borders, the leadership, etc. How can a nation recognize a country that that countries' people don't?

[AndrewHampton]

Tangle has a great breakdown of what this means in their article yesterday: https://www.readtangle.com/emil-bove-trump-lawyer-federal-ju...

Turns out, it's complicated.

[ses1984]

One of the things that makes a country a country is recognition by other countries. Look it up.

[crinkly]

As it’s a threat, it’s cheap and easy words to pacify growing hostility within society.

It has nothing to do with helping the Palestinian and Israeli people or holding the Israeli government or Hamas to account.