"On Monday, September 22, a moment of decision will take place on New York's East River at the United Nations General Assembly. France, Canada, and Belgium intend to recognize Palestine as a state, and the United Kingdom is also likely to take the step. The goal is to exert pressure on Israel to end the Gaza war and initiate a new peace process. Of the 193 UN members, almost 150 have already recognized Palestine as a state."
"The US, on the other hand, strictly rejects recognition, as does Israel. Its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described such a step as "a reward for terror" for the radical Islamist group Hamas which is categorized as a terrorist organization by the Israel, US, EU and others that led the terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 which sparked the war in Gaza."
"The German government won't be taking this step "in the short term," as it officially put it. "We won't be joining this initiative," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz from the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in August when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited. However, Merz's reasoning was rather formal in nature. "We do not consider the conditions for state recognition to be fulfilled in any way at present. Recognition must be the final step in a peace process that results in a two-state solution," he said."
France, Canada, Belgium and the United Kingdom intend to recognize Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly on September 22 to pressure Israel to end the Gaza war and restart a peace process. Almost 150 of 193 UN members already recognize Palestine. The United States and Israel reject recognition; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it "a reward for terror" for Hamas, which Israel, the US and the EU classify as a terrorist organization and which carried out the October 7, 2023 attack. Recognition would bolster the Palestinian Authority and represent a diplomatic setback for Israel. Germany says it will not recognize Palestine in the short term, arguing that recognition must follow a completed peace process and a viable two-state solution, which appears distant amid the ongoing Gaza war that has killed around 65,000 people according to the Hamas-led Gazan Health Ministry.
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