The recent recognition of the state of Palestine by several European countries, including France and Belgium, “does not force Israel in any way,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the night of Wednesday, September 24, September 24, repeating his leitmotif according to which “he will not have been Palestinian.”
“The shameful submission of certain leaders to Palestinian terrorism does not oblige Israel in any way. He will not have been Palestinian,” said Banjamin Netanyahu in a lapidary statement published by his office.
This is Benjamin Netanyahu’s first reaction to Palestine recognition on Monday by French president Emmanuel Macron in the UN Gallery in New York, an initiative to which five other European countries joined that day: Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco.
A series of recognitions of already 19 countries
The countries of the European continent are now the majority to recognize the state of Palestine with the official statements on Monday in New York in France, Belgium, Luxembourg or Malta, after almost two years of war in the Gaza Strip.
Russia, Arab countries, almost all in Africa and Latin America, the vast majority of Asian countries, including India and China, are already on this list.
Algeria was the first country, on November 15, 1988, in recognizing the state of Palestine, just after its proclamation in Algiers by the historical leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat. Dozens of countries will continue shortly after, then in a second wave, twenty years later.
The Gaza war directed by Israel in response to the unprecedented attack against the movement of Palestinian Islamist Hamas on its soil on October 7, 2023 resulted in a new series of recognitions, already by 19 countries.
Source: BFM TV
