Read about it here: Ireland standing ready to recognise Palestine state 'gives hope'.
Now, that phrase "Palestinian States" - plural states, as in more than one state - is literally correct, since there are two of them, one run by Hamas in Gaza and the other run by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Ireland, Spain, Malta and Slovenia standing ready to recognise the Palestine state has given Palestinians "hope," [Palestinian ambassador to Ireland Dr Jilan Abdalmajidits] has said.
Earlier, in a joint-statement, the four countries' prime ministers said they were ready to recognise the Palestine state when the "circumstances are right".You may wonder what, exactly, are those circumstances? And who decides when they are 'right?'
Who knows? To my mind, only after all Hamas fighters have been killed will there be any point in even thinking about post-conflict reconstruction. But that's why I'd never make an EU small country Prime Minister.
Before you break out the champagne, see this part of the statement:
"We agreed that the only way to achieve lasting peace and stability in the region is through implementation of a two-state solution, with Israeli and Palestinian States living side-by-side, in peace and security," the statement said.
Yes, I know that's not the intended meaning of the phrase, but just a bit of linguistic ambiguity. However, its the almost poetic blurting out of an awkward truth, all the same.
If any EU small country PMs want to see an Israeli state side-by-side with a single Palestinian state, then someone will first have to make peace between the two Palestinian states that currently exist. Good luck with that.
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Around 1000AD Ireland passed a law where musicians, poets, and such had to be publicly supported. Of course they were overrun by these people, the Irish resorted to a simple but elegant solution, they killed all of them!
I like it. Life was rough back then, and people who spent all day grubbing up some tubers to put in the family's famine pot did not have the patience to tolerate wandering minstrels - "buskers" they call them now, and just as annoying - epic poets and God knows what other social parasites.
Artists back then needed to leech off the rich, getting 'commissions' and so on, and leave the common man alone. That system, I will admit, often produced great art.
Great art is usually produced by lunatics.
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