LISBON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Portugal will recognize a Palestinian state on Sunday, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday.

The Official Declaration of Recognition will take place even before next week’s High-Level Conference, it added.

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    1 day ago

    Wow such Brave politicians we have! When faced with Israel pursuing a final solution against 2 million people they give them six to eight more weeks to wrap up the starvation phase of the solution or else they will make a symbolic declaration that changes nothing!

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    Weren’t England and France threatening to recognize Palestine a while back?

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      19 hours ago

      Only if Hamas disarms.

      In other words, the Gazans have to unconditionally surrender to Israel first and then those nations will “recognize Palestine as a nation” which does nothing at all to protect said Gazans from being exterminated to the last man, woman and child by Israel.

      Unsurprisingly, the movement top “recognize” Palestine like this was started by Britain, the same country which still now runs surveillance flights over Gaza and gives the data to Israel, has old ladies arrested as terrorists for demonstrating against that Genocide and has a long tradition in politics of using the strategy of “loudly announcing a measure that looks will do one thing, whilst in fact doing nothing or the opposite” in order to defuse public opinion pressure to actually act to solve something.

      Most countries participating in the British led version are countries such as Belgium and Canada with governments that support the Zionists and their Genocide (edit: whilst the public opinion there is strongly against the Genocide, hence the need to make it seem they’re doing something about it whilst in practice doing nothing)

      This is Smoke & Mirrors bullshit, so good on the government of Portugal (my homeland, and until now a fucking disgrace on the subject of Palestine and Israel, more so given that the country is right next to Spain which behaves very differently, but at least this once they’re - surprisingly, more so because the “conservatives” are in power - not as usual being the poodle for nations like Britain) for distancing itself from the Theatrical Performance led by the Brits.

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      21 hours ago

      Don’t you mean using the recognition to deflect from the fact that they still are complicit with the genocide?

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      I thought france did.

      If France wants to help they should go in there with the full Navy ready to fight and deliver enough food to the Palestinians personally. If the Israelis attack be prepared to annihilate their forces.

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    terrific news

    now hamas will definitely make peace with israel

    problem solved

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      Oh snap, I thought for a second you might feel that the problem was genocide. My bad.

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      Your comment makes it sound like you are one of those people lying to justify Israel’s Final Solution against Gaza.

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      Too late for that jackass, peace comes when Israel is dismantled and you Zionist are scattered to the wind. You don’t give a shit about Jews, if you did youd know countless Jews abroad are against Israel

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      Yeah because that’s totally the reason why Israel is doing all that. Not because they need Lebensraum, but because three dudes in a territory, they have had complete control over for the past 20 years, killed some of their citizens.