(JNS) — Another week, another country recognizing a Palestinian state. In the past 12 months alone, Norway, Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, Armenia and Mexico have joined more than 140 others already recognizing Palestine. France may be next, as it plans with Saudi Arabia to cohost a United Nations summit on the topic of Palestinian statehood.
But symbolic nods of recognition don’t help anyone. Is there any agreement on what the country of Palestine looks like? Who governs it? Where are its borders? And does it matter whether Israel is on board with the program? Maybe it doesn’t, but at the very lea...
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