General News Spanish Parliament votes to recognise Palestine

Well, it's a step in the right direction. If more states recognize Palestine it could put more pressure on Israel to recognize them as well.

 

Good to see more States doing this.

 

Spoiler

 

This is definitely a step in the right direction.

 

there are more countries that recognise the state of palestine, than there are that don't. israel will remain undeterred.

anyway, that's nice of spain, now free western sahara.

 

I'm surprised, considering their opposition to Kosovo and Scotland. Wouldn't they worry this might inspire Catalonian independence?

 

Um, I think Sweden was the first and I thought Catalonia said nah...
volem subjugació!

 

In his inaugural address Oct. 3, Mr. Lofven told Parliament that a two-state solution was the only way to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. “Sweden will therefore recognize the state of Palestine,” he said.

Malta and Cyprus are the only other West European countries to have recognized a Palestinian state. Britain’s Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution this month to give diplomatic recognition to a Palestinian state, although the government of Prime Minister David Cameron opposes recognition.

Romain Nadal, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, said this month that France “will have to recognize Palestine,” although he did not specify when such a move might take place.
NYT 10/30/14

Believe me , I'm not trying to contradict you .

 

LGBT rights are non-existent in Gaza or the West Bank. Israel is the most Pro-Gay country in the Middle East.

Though, "progressive" nations like Sweden and Spain don't care as long as they can continue hating Jews.

 

Wow! Rajoy, the man who believes that abortion is murder, has finally done something minimally productive and half-decent. Shocking.

 

Until the people who govern the Palestinians cease their support for terrorism, there will never be peace in the region.

Hamas has no intentions of ending it's terrorist actions in Gaza against Israel or against it's own people in Gaza. And Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank has no intention of controlling the radicals in his Fatah government.

If Palestine is recognized as a state then they can receive weapons much more easily from other terrorist states and attack Israel (Israel wouldn't be able to blockade Hamas from gaining weapons if Gaza was a country), which is not only a problem for the Jewish population there but also the Christian and Muslim populations in Israel.

 

Also, Spain does not have a good history of supporting Jewish civil rights. the country had a town called "kill the Jews" for a few hundred years for crying out aloud! ( and only changed it recently):

Spainish village votes to change its 'Camp Kill Jews' name after 400 years | Daily Mail Online

 

Hey, Spain has a bad history with regards to killing with almost every religion, nationality and race including their own. They didn't make an exception for Jewish people.

 

Not Israel's problem. Israel has offered numerous concessions to the Palestinians with no positive results.

- the 2005 removal of Israeli control in Gaza (2005 disengagement plan)
- the failed 2000 peace talks (2000 Camp David Summit) between Israel and the Palestinians - in which Israel offered to give up like 90% of the west bank settlements
- the failed 1990's peace talks that the left championed so arrogantly which essentially guaranteed a Palestinian state (Oslo Accords)
- Israel's intention to give back the west bank and gaza after the Six Day War but was rejected by the Arab League (Khartorum Resolution...the three no's)
- The U.N. plan in the 1940's to break the disputed territory into a Jewish state and to a Palestinian state...Arab league attacked Israel instead of accepting.

I support a two state solution, as a Jew and as someone with dual American/ Israeli citizenship, but giving car keys to terrorist leaders will never lead to peace.