France will be the first country of the G7 to recognize the state of Palestine and will bring the members of the UN to 148 out of 148 out of 193 who have taken this position. Among them are not Italy and the United States.
Sweden was the first EU country to take this step, in 2014, at the height of months of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem Est. The state of Palestine had already been recognized in 1998, following the declaration of independence proclaimed by the then leader of the Olp Yasser Arafat, from Cyprus (entered the EU in 2004) and by a series of countries of the Soviet block now in the Union: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the then Czechoslovakia, then divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Budapest have taken a step back, but both capitals still host a Palestinian embassy. Support for the Palestinian status of France, the first country of the G7 to do so, will come with the formal act scheduled in September. A decision that triggered controversy similar to those of last year, when the recognition came from Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Norway (which is not part of the EU). Malta recognizes the right of the Palestinians to statoma but not formally the state of Palestine, even if he said he was ready to take this step last May. As for Italy, he believes that this solution should be achieved through the negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians with a view to the two states. Shared position with the United States.
In the rest of the world
Almost all of Asia, Africa and Latin America formally recognize the Palestinian state. Algeria was the first country, in 1988 a few minutes after Arafat’s declaration, followed in close tour by many others: much of the Arab world, India, Turkey, most of Africa, as well as China and Russia, which was still the Soviet Union. In 2011 Moscow, with the then tenant of the Dmitry Medvedev Kremlin, confirmed the recognition. In the two-year period 2010-2011, a series of South American countries were joined including Argentina, Brazil and Chile. In November 2012 the Palestinian flag was hoisted for the first time at the United Nations in New York, after the General Assembly voted for a vast majority to raise the status of the Palestinians to “non-member observer state”. Last year, the Assembly voted for a resolution stating that Palestine is “qualified to become a Member State” with 143 votes in favor, 25 abstentions (including Italy) and nine against, including the USA. Washington, as well as Rome, still maintains diplomatic relations with the Palestinian national authority, together with Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and finally Canada and Australia, who have ventilated the possibility of recognizing Palestine.
The Italian reaction
Ambiguous, shy, reticent, incomprehensible, disconcerting. The range of adjectives is varied that the opposition reserves to the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajaniaccusing him together with the premier and the rest of the government of not knowing how to assume a “clear and courageous” position like the one that last saw France to take sides for the recognition of the state of Palestine. “Italy is for the solution two peoples and two states – he argues the vice premier and leader of Forza Italia – but the recognition of the new Palestinian state must take place simultaneously with the recognition of the state of Israel on their part”. A position then black on white in the final political document, unanimously devoted by the National Council of FI. The choice of French Emmanuel Macron The president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana does not fully convince. “The question I was doing was if it helps to resolve or aggravate the situation”. “On the one hand it can help weaken Hamas. On the other the risk is that Israel, feeling surrounded, can react. The thing does not see me contrary, but I don’t know if the conflict is resolved,” he observes during the traditional fan ceremony. On the contrary, opposition generally appreciates that the cousins of the Alps recognize the state of Palestine And it goes into pressing because it is equally to do Italy. Elly Schlein -. I wanted to reiterate it because I read the incomprehensible statements of Minister Tajani for which the road is that of the two peoples and two states. Too bad that one state already exists while the other is illegally occupied ». The leader M5S is also hard on social networks Giuseppe Conte. “What about Italy? While Salvini takes prizes for friendship with Israel, Meloni refuses to suspend the Memorandum in military understanding with the criminal government of Israel and today in the press we read disturbing news of new contacts between military leaders of Rome and Tel Aviv, of new military cooperation plans on which the government will have to provide clarifications. What a national shame ». For the secretary of Più Europe Riccardo Magi “Giorgia Meloni should follow Macron, a very strong political message to exert pressure on Netanyahu so that the brutal siege of Gaza ends and allows access of the aid to the Palestinian population”. Of the same notice AVS and PRC. In the controversy, under accusation, it is above all Tajani. “Our foreign minister does he know what he is about? – The Dem Foreign Manager sinks Beppe Provenzano -. He says that Israel’s recognition is needed. Apart from that Italy recognized him in 1949, Palestine, with Olp, also did it in 1993, with Oslo agreements. It is Israel if anything that Palestine must recognize, putting an end to the illegal employment of its territories ».