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Still better than Trump smearing the blood of dead Palestinian civilians all over his face as a cheap replacement for his normal clown makeup

I really don't see the point this is trying to make. Like, would it be better if they didn't recognize it at all?

Politicians from those countries are under enormous Public Opinion pressure to "do something" to Stop Israel (for example, in Britain 500 THOUSAND people demonstrated against the Genocide).

So the politicians in power do the most innefective "something" imaginable.

The simplest most surperficial reading of this is: see, they did "something" and even if small "it's a step forward" - you see a lot of posters here doing that reading.

An analysis with even just the tiniest bit of depth yields the possibility that, by choosing to do the least effective thing they could do now, they're diffusing some of that Public Opinion pressure thus delaying the time when the pressure is so big they have to do something that actually hurts Israel, like Sanctions.

If that is the case, then this action is in fact negative rather than merely meaningless or "a small step forward", because it gives Israel more time to exterminate Palestinians and steal more of their land - it means more deaths rather than fewer and a worse future (as more of them get dispossessed) rather than a better one.

Given that all these countries are still sending weapons to Israel, and the UK - which was the initiator of all this - is even running surveillance flights over Gaza and giving the info to Israel, it seems to me that the "it's a delaying action to give room for Israel to take their Final Solution further" explanation is far more likely than the idea that this is being done with a genuine intent of helping Palestinians.

I think this is at least a good step 1, albeit insanely late, but it needs to be followed with sustained action and reparations. If they use this as a marketing tool like the pessimist in me is expecting, then it’s meaningless bullshit. No amount of recognition will wash the blood off of their hands.

They figure the job's close enough to done that they can flip to the "right side of history" without affecting the outcome

Americans can shove their opinions after they let Nazis who openly declared they'd flatten Gaza to take power.

Why is France written in Comic Sans?

Some people will complain they're catching flak for doing the right thing. That's why nobody does it etc.

But that's the point. If you're really honest with yourself you take your licks and own up for what you did wrong. People are gonna give you a hard time for it.

The alternative is not doing it.

It's setting the stage. It doesn't do much on it's own but if you recognize them as a state rather than just some people it gives leverage to use more diplomatic tools.

How much difference will it actually make? No idea.

You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Should they take no positive steps?

Better than refusing to recognize Palestine.

Would people prefer no recognition?

It's been clearly photoshopped. There was something else instead of France. You should really respect the original author's work

link to the original comic? OP clearly, badly, photoshop'd this one and it's clear OP is from the country they replaced with France.

"Out, damned spot! ... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"

What's with the arm for France? It's clearly labeled in a different way than everything else in the picture.