And the nations of the Anglosphere continue their virtue-signaling embrace of a terrorist state
It may seem like Bizarro World, but it’s reality – a reality that we knew was coming because it was previously announced, but that doesn’t make it any less repellent:
The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia on Sunday all recognized a putative Palestinian state, acting amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.
The synchronized announcements, coming within minutes of each other, defied opposition from the American and Israeli governments, which said such a move would be a reward for terrorism.
“Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East,” read a written statement by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “This envisioned the creation of a sovereign, democratic and viable State of Palestine, building its future in peace and security alongside the State of Israel.
“Hamas has terrorized the people of Israel and oppressed the people of Gaza, wreaking horrific suffering,” the statement continued. “It is imperative that Hamas release all hostages, fully disarm and play no role in the future governance of Palestine. Hamas has stolen from the Palestinian people, cheated them of their life and liberty, and can in no way dictate their future.
“The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established. … It is in this context that Canada recognizes the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel,” Carney said.
Delusional in so many ways. The two-state solution was a dream that was worth pursuing, but it has become abundantly clear that the Palestinians don’t support it and that it is now a mere fantasy. You can’t have a two-state solution when one state wants to obliterate the other.
And a country such as Canada can say all it wants that it is imperative that Hamas release all hostages, fully disarm, and play no future role in “Palestine.” Empty blather. What are you going to do to make that happen, Carney? Reward them with a recognized state – at present, when they have steadfastly refused to do any such things (au contraire) and have toyed with useful idiots such as you?
But perhaps the worst part of Carney’s message was this slander:
The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established.
Oh, if only there was no Netanyahu and his administration, working so hard to prevent a glorious and peacefully co-existing Palestinian state that the Palestinians have tried so hard to establish, the dream of peace would be realized. Either Carney knows zero about the history of the area or is lying in order to placate his constituents (among them quite a few local Muslims; Canada was about 5% Muslim in 2021 and that percentage has probably only increased since then, whereas its Jewish population is about 1%) – or he’s both ignorant and pandering.
I vote for both. There may be a dose of anti-Semitism thrown in there as well. A toxic brew.
There has never been a country called Palestine, It’s a fictitious country like wakanda. Are they going to open fictitious embassys and exchange ficticous ambassadors? How do you recognize a country that doesnt exist? This is delusional. These people live in fantasyland.
As for the UK, “ignorant” and “pandering” may well apply, but so would being misled by their experience with capitulating to terrorists in Ireland in 1922 and in Northern Ireland in 1998. In those cases, giving the terrorists what they wanted did defuse the problem for the UK, though not necessarily for the people in Ireland who had to live with those terrorists afterward.
But those terrorists actually got what they wanted, which was the same thing that they said they wanted. In Gaza this is definitely not true, as what Hamas actually wants, both words and actions, is to kill Jews. I think the calculation is that in the West Bank those leaders may prefer being autocrats of a thug state getting lots of Western money in preference to killing Jews. I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m not betting my own life on it, and neither is the leadership of the UK.
(As an aside, I say “terrorists” about those Irish because I believe that is accurate. I also believe their grievances were completely legitimate, that the history of Britain in Ireland is everything that anti-Zionists claim about Israel, but worse and went on for many more hundreds of years. Sometimes the battle is not between good and evil, but between different varieties of evil.)
We began to see the Anglosphere fall (decline is too generous) with the Draconian COVID restrictions–especially the ones in Australia and NZ, the Canadian response to the truckers’ strike, England’s lack of response to Muslim rape gangs, etc. It is both sad and scary.
@Ray:Are they going to open fictitious embassys and exchange ficticous ambassadors?
Been doing that for years. Taiwan does too but has to call them something else in countries that recognize China, usually “Taipei Cultural and Economic Office” in English-speaking countries.
Neo:
The first hyperlink in this post opens to your Erika Kirk piece.
The block quote appears to be from:
https://www.jns.org/uk-canada-australia-recognize-state-of-palestine/
Seen the Antifa-Arab coalition riots in Milan It. today? Evidently these were in reaction to the Italian govt’s refusal of Pali recognition, and perhaps an indication of precisely the troubles that Britain, Australia, and Canada are buying off with theirs.
Full statement by Carney:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/09/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-on-canada-recognition-state-palestine
It includes this:
“The Palestinian Authority has provided direct commitments to Canada and the international community on much-needed reforms, including to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.”
Yeah, right. Classic taqiyya.
@Watt:to hold general elections in 2026
LOL. Mahmoud Abbas is 20 years into his first four-year term.
The leadership of every country that votes to recognize a putative Palestinian state, demonstrates their unfitness for the office they hold. Yet they would not have been elected to that office without obtaining a sufficient majority of the voters. That majority deserve the fate their elected leadership is leading them toward.
“Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” Matthew 15:14 KJV
But that majority’s real sin is in dragging the rest of us along.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.” Edmund Burke
The Left’s Long March Through our Institutions has done incalculable harm and will do far more if allowed to continue.
“Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East,”
America in 1947 – 1948:
1) Colonel David Marcus – an America Jew, WWII Veteran of the US Army and West Point graduate is recruited by Israel to go there to organize their military before they are attacked. He does so and Israel defeats the armies of Jordan (led by the British ex WWII officers including the infamous Pasha Grubb) Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
2) Al Schwimmer, Jewish-American commercial pilot, WWII flight engineer is put in charge of smuggling 30 planes into Israel so the Jews can defend their new nation. He is considered by many to be the father of the Israeli Air Force.
3) Lou Lenowitz, a US pilot from Pennsylvania leads a group of (4) Messerschmitts (smuggled in from Czechoslovakia where they were built) to bomb and strafe the Egyptian Army convoy and turned them back forever. Many US Jewish ex WW II military pilots also served.
Some nations are cowardly and some not.
The Anglosphere, ex-America, can go to Hell.
Suicide of the West.
An unincorporated territory, in the wake of the Ottoman empire, a Jewish community organizes in an Israeli state. A terrorist state and sympathetic axes powers pledge that the area will be free of Jews from the river to the sea. Progress: one step forward, three steps backward.
No matter what any other nation says or does, the Palestinians will not accept any solution that allows a Jewish state in the middle east, or probably anywhere else. (We could try offering them Nevada but they don’t want it.)
Israel will not accept any solution that doesn’t.
So none of this matters very much.