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How Can the European Union Recognize a Palestinian State Before it Exists?
By Sean Osbourne
21 February 2010: The Israeli left-leaning newspaper Ha'aretz reported today that through a French and Spanish initiative the European Union will recognise the existence of a "Palestinian" state 18 months from now. Based upon current realities, such a state would comprise the yellow-colored areas of the West Bank seen in the map image above. Most geo-political analysts would say that such a map does not geographically represent a viable nation state where none of its kind has previously been extant.
And would not the total of 18 months from now constitute an exceptionable bit of timing? I mean to say, consider it, would not the book-makers of the secular world set odds on whether or not the European Union's official recognition of a non-existent state will occur on or before Tisha B'Av, or Tuesday, 9 August 2011, the historical anniversary of the most tragic days in Israel's long history? Inquiring minds want to know because such an initiative driving Arab-Islamic expectations over the intervening months might be the impetus for a war should those expectations be dashed or not be realized. A war like the Psalm 83 war perhaps.
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