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Europe's Reckless Recognition of Palestine

(RealClearWorld) Paul McCarthy - European governments plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly. This is a betrayal of a key U.S. ally, a gift to terrorists, and a direct slap in the face to the U.S. By rewarding the butchers of Hamas, European leaders are legitimizing terror as a political strategy. It emboldens radicals, sidelines Israel's legitimate security concerns, and erases the progress of the Abraham Accords. These governments intend to confer legitimacy to the Palestinian Authority led by president-for-life Mahmoud Abbas, which has not held an election in nearly two decades and which openly funds "pay-for-slay" stipends to terrorists' families, refuses to renounce Hamas, and incites hatred against Jews. By undercutting Israel, Europe is showing Washington that it is more interested in mollifying its large domestic Muslim minorities at the UN than standing shoulder-to-shoulder with its allies against terror. Europe's rush to recognize an imaginary Palestinian state exposes the continent's failed globalist dogma that endless summits and hollow gestures can substitute for hard power and real security. European elites have learned nothing from the failures of the Oslo Accords or the repeated waves of Palestinian violence since the 1990s. They prefer moral preening to confronting the reality on the ground: Israel's survival is non-negotiable, and peace will never come through legitimizing extremist actors. Instead of encouraging Palestinians to renounce terror and reform and engage, Europe is telling them they can bypass compromise, pocket international recognition, and continue funding terrorism with impunity. The writer is Senior Research Fellow for European Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation.
2025-09-21 00:00:00
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