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Trump is on the ropes as Maga turns against Israel
Hamas is not the government of Palestine. The Palestinian National Authority is de jure the government of Palestine. 2006 saw a civil war ensue in Gaza, with the Hamas group winning. In a legal sense, the PNA claims the Gaza strip, but Hamas exerts de facto control, in the same way that the Houthis exert de facto control of Western Yemen, but are not recognised as the legitimate government of Yemen. 147 out of 193 UN members recognise Palestine as an independant state. You and others, including the Israeli government, continue to inflate the power of Hamas, as part of some sort of effort to delegitimise the PNA. Any discussion about Palestinian sovereignty should not be dependant on the breakaway group's actions. You have made up the conditions of Palestinian recognition. France's recognition is unconditional. Macron might call for demilitarization and a ceasefire, but recognition is not dependant on these conditions. The UK and Canada are towing a similar line to each other; recognition will happen unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire, changes its West bank settlement policy and makes "substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza and commits to a long term sustainable peace". If the UK and France recognise Palestine, that means 4 out of 5 members of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council will take a similar position. The current UK government is following a similar stance to previous UK governments, who all believed in a two state solution, but believed that recognition needed to be reserved until it has maximum effect. The judgement is clearly that time has come. The UK doesn't recognise governments, it recognises states. That is an important distinction. Hamas is proscribed, and that won't change. Conditions in Palestine won't change because of this recognition. But conditions outside of Palestine will. Britain and France will be now be talking to regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt not as countries with fundementally differing positions, but now closely allied positions with respect to the sovereignty of Palestine. Of the EU4+UK, only Germany and Italy don't recognise Palestine, and its probably just a matter of time before that changes. Even Meloni, the only significant European leader ideologically aligned with the American leader (I dismiss Hungary as a significant state, its a former Comecon state that hasn't understood the world has moved on), has indicated she supports the idea of a Palestinian state, but disagrees on the timing. The UK has signalled to Israel that if it doesn't want a Palestinian state established not on its terms, this is what it needs to do. Israel might have the US as a friend, but it still professes to be a European state on the shores of the Mediterranean. It has undeniable cultural, familial, political and economic ties to Europe. It participates in EU institutions , such as Horizon. I speak to Israeli companies all the time, and, without exception, they all say their number one market is not the US but Europe. Israel is part of an EU free trade area, with mutual standards recognition, very important for market entry. -
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Tourism Foreign Tourists in Pattaya Feel "Short-Changed" Amid Local Deals
You don't have a choice. It has always been this way. If you don't like it , there's the airport. -
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LONDON - Then and Now
Five decades in the past, it was not. Those were the days. -
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Tourism Foreign Tourists in Pattaya Feel "Short-Changed" Amid Local Deals
That's quite damning for Vietnam. Only a 5% return rate. So a lot of these complainers are all talk. They cry about the "double pricing" but keep coming back. It appears that Thai's are in fact better at business than their counterparts in Vietnam -
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Expat Discontent in Thailand
A counterfeit visa is considered an illegal visa.
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