I’m starting to wonder if the State of Palestine will just slowly fade into real existence. This week, the PLO mission in DC raised its flag for the first time and Russia reaffirmed a 1988 Soviet recognition of Palestine. The latter is a far more important step than the recent spate of South American recognitions of Palestine.
From JTA:
“It’s about time that this flag that symbolizes the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and statehood is raised in the United States,” said Palestine Liberation Organization envoy Maen Areikat in a brief ceremony Tuesday outside its Dupont Circle offices. “We hope that this will help in the international efforts to provide recognition for the Palestinian state.
The Obama administration granted the delegation, which does not have embassy status, permission to raise the flag last July.
Palestinian Authority officials last year launched an effort to broaden international recognition of a state of Palestine within the 1967 borders of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The officials targeted Europe and Latin America, the two areas of the world where nations resisted the last such push, in the late 1980s.
Seven South American nations have signed on to the effort, and senior Israeli officials have said they fear European governments may join them.
The rest of the article is here.
It’s interesting. Before the Shoah, the plan of most Zionists was to create Israel in much the same manner, slowly and steadily building and putting facts on the ground until it would be impossible not to recognize that a new state had come into existence.
