With Canada, the U.K., Australia, France, and Portugal on board, more than three-quarters of the world now recognizes a Palestinian state.
Symbolic? Yes. Significant? Absolutely—it chips away at the Israel–U.S. wall of denial.
But let’s not kid ourselves: stamping “recognized” on Palestine is the easy part. The harder truth is whether these same Western nations are using recognition as a convenient smokescreen—an easy moral checkbox—while dodging the real responsibility of holding Israel to account for what the U.N. bluntly calls genocide in Gaza.
Recognition alone does not wash away bloodstains. The Western world cannot clap itself on the back while Gaza burns. Words don’t stop bombs, and diplomacy doesn’t excuse silence.
Palestine may be recognized, but Gaza still bleeds.
Promod Puri.com 
Dear Promod Bhai: Thank you for your piece on Gaza.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was approved by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and came into force on 12 January 1951. Its purpose is to prevent any crime of Genocide (which involves acts of killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.)
A UN Committee has now declared that Israel has committed crime of Genocide against the Palestinian people. Yet the world is unable to stop it. The recognition of a Palestinian state by Canada, UK, Australia, and France is too late. It should have happened years ago. What good is a two-state solution when both Israel and the US are intent on making it impossible?
The Israeli leaders have been making statements for more than a year that Gaza will be flattened, and its people should leave. Starving people of Gaza, making it impossible for them to obtain medical aid, bombing schools and hospitals has taken place and is taking place daily.
This would not have bene possible without the western countries providing weapons to Israel. Those who did are complicit in the crime of Genocide. How can these countries continue to proclaim they believe in “rule of law” when they ignore such an important treaty and allow Israel to commit Genocide? History will not judge them too kindly.
Harinder Mahil
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Thanks for your well-explained comment exposing the hypocrisy of the Western world led by the USA.
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