According to an Expert, Recognizing the Palestinian State Won’t Immediately Improve the Situation

According to Julie Norman, an associate professor of Middle Eastern politics at University College London, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are unlikely to be impacted by this decision. However, she warned that actions taken by a number of important nations to acknowledge their statehood at the September UN General Assembly would eventually offer Palestinians more diplomatic influence. Norman’s remarks coincided with Canada announcing its plan to do likewise, making it the most recent Western democracy that has historically supported Israel.

Although it is now regarded as an observer state at the UN, she added that this does not imply that it would eventually become a complete state. And compared to the rest of the globe, it truly does show how alone the US is in that choice,” she added. A Palestinian state has already been recognized by more than 140 nations, including 12 in Europe.

However, Norman asserted that Palestinian negotiators would have a stronger negotiating position in any future discussions with Israel if these Western nations recognized them. As the first nation in the Group of Seven and the biggest in Europe to do so, French President Emmanuel Macron said last week that Paris would recognize a Palestinian state.

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