Belgium will join France in recognizing a Palestinian state at the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York this month, the country’s foreign minister announced on 2 September.
Belgium: “Best I can do is continue both-sidesing a genocide”
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It’s a start.
Belgian here. Their wording is confusing and I’ve been trying to figure out how much of it is meaningful.
They tacked on a precondition to them recognizing Palestine: Hamas must give up power. I don’t see that condition being met faster than Israel can flatten what remains of Gaza and force its population out – which in turn only creates more suffering and anger for the militant recruit pipeline.
The sanctions mostly concern boycotts on products produced in occupied regions. Fuck that – boycott all trade with Israel.
Our rightwing prime minister is on record saying that the whole debate was annoyingly motivated by ‘morality’ and that he’s glad the government (an uneasy coalition) can move on to more important matters. Downright shameful.
Come protest this Sunday in Brussels. Last one was attended by 100k demonstrators. Was a fun afternoon. More info at 11.be
Only in occupied regions? So, from the river to the sea?!
Honestly, recognition is worthless. The sanctions on the West Bank settlement goods are all that matters and that is huge. Good job on that (if actually implemented).
the next protest should be massive. see you there brethren!
Whitout doubting what you say, from this last tweet it looks like the narrative (at least in this instance) has shifted? In the sense that this text seems pretty clear to me.
No matter what, I hope the protest goes incredibly well!!
Now just the rest of us in Europe has to follow suit.
This is a step in the right direction, but these sanctions are really weak. You can do better.
The government(s) nearly fell over this. The politicians can’t/won’t do better than this superficial posturing.
If they fall i’d say that is good.
Zionism is a political, legal, moral, economical and social liability. If they won’t stop supporting it, because that is the legal and moral thing to do, then they need to suffer consequences that make them stop supporting Zionism.
