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Ireland to Recognize Palestine Soon, Warns «Israel’s» AMB

Ireland to Recognize Palestine Soon, Warns «Israel’s» AMB
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The "Israeli" entity's ambassador to Ireland, Zeev Boker, cabled a warning to al-Quds [Jerusalem] on Tuesday that the Irish government was soon likely to recognize Palestine as a state.

Ireland to Recognize Palestine Soon, Warns «Israel’s» AMB

An official in al-Quds noted that the "Israeli" entity's embassy in Dublin had assessed a while ago that official recognition of Palestine was coming, but in recent days, after the entity's decision to expand settlement construction and passage of the law allowing the expropriation of private Palestinian land, this assessment had been reinforced.

The official noted that Boker proposed working now to block the move, both by asking the new US administration to pressure Ireland to avoid recognizing Palestine and by having "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu call his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny to discuss the issue.

In October 2014 the Swedish government officially recognized Palestine as a state, making Sweden the first Western European country to do so. Since then there had been a wave of parliamentary resolutions in various EU countries calling on governments to recognize Palestine.

In December 2014, the Irish parliament passed a declarative resolution calling on the government to recognize Palestine. A few weeks afterward Irish Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan said Dublin was considering it. Ireland is considered one of the leading critics in Europe of the "Israeli" entity's policies in the territories.

In June 2016 Irish MP Darragh O'Brien submitted a resolution calling on Dublin to expedite the recognition of Palestine. In recent weeks O'Brien has intensified his actions in the Irish media and in parliament to bring the resolution to a vote.

Boker wrote to the Foreign Ministry in al-Quds that O'Brien's resolution could be still be voted on this month and that afterward it was almost certain the government would make such a move. Boker wrote that it was crucial to start making diplomat efforts now to scuttle Irish recognition of Palestine.

Europe's sharp condemnations of the expropriation law continued, with Germany issuing an statement of unprecedented criticism in which it made clear it no longer believes the Netanyahu government is interested in the so-called "two-state" solution.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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