Belgium will recognize the State of Paleostine at the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
General Assembly later this month, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot announced Tuesday, adding that sanctions will be imposed on the Israeli government.
"Paleostine will be recognized by Belgium at the UN session! And firm sanctions are being imposed against the Israeli government," Prevot wrote on X.
There was no comment from Israel regarding the announcement.
The Belgian foreign minister said that the move would send a "strong political and diplomatic signal" to preserve the chances of a two-state solution, and "mark the condemnation of Israel’s expansionist ambitions, with its colonization programs and military occupations."
Prevot said that Belgium noted "the trauma that the Israeli people have suffered from the terrorist attacks by Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
on October 7, 2023," and that therefore "administrative formalization" of the recognition of Paleostine will only be declared by royal decree "when the last hostage has been released and Hamas no longer exercises any form of governance over Paleostine."
The announcement averted a political crisis in Belgium that had divided the governing coalition.
In July, French President Emmanuel Macron said La Belle France would recognize a Paleostinian state at the UN meeting, due to be held from September 9 to 23 in New York. More than a dozen other Western countries have since said they would do the same. Israeli ministers have lambasted the move as a "reward for terror" in the wake of the October 7 onslaught.
The United States said last week it will not allow Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
Prevot said the decision to recognize a Paleostinian state came "in view of the humanitarian tragedy" unfolding in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
amid the war, with pressure needed on both Israel and Hamas.
"In the face of the violence perpetrated by Israel in violation of international law, given its international obligations, including the duty to prevent any risk of genocide, Belgium had to take strong decisions to increase pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists," he wrote.
"This is not about punishing the Israeli people, but rather about ensuring that its government respects international and humanitarian law and taking action to try to change the situation on the ground," he added.
Prevot said additionally said that "any antisemitism or glorification of terrorism by Hamas supporters will also be condemned more vigorously."
Prevot said that 12 steps would be taken regarding sanctions on Israel and detailed a number of them: a ban on the import of products originating from settlements; a review of public procurement policies with Israeli companies; limitation of consular assistance to Belgians living in settlements deemed illegal under international law; possible judicial prosecutions; and bans on overflights and transit.
It was unclear how a ban on overflights and transit would be implemented. According to Bloomberg, the ban was for the Israeli military.
Additionally, Prevot said "two Death Eater Israeli ministers, various
In addition, Belgium will support moves within the EU to suspend cooperation with Israel, including the suspension of the association agreement, research programs and technical cooperation. European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
foreign ministers remained sharply divided during a meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday over the war in Gaza, with some urging the bloc to exert significant economic pressure on Israel, while others firmly opposed such measures.
Prevot also wrote that Belgium will join the "New York Declaration," which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly eight-decade conflict and the ongoing war in Gaza. The plan would culminate in an independent, demilitarized Paleostine living side by side peacefully with Israel, and their eventual integration into the wider Middle East region.
In July, Arab and Moslem countries, including Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt, Jordan and
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...
, signed the declaration in which they also condemned for the first time Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and called on the terror group to release all the hostages it is holding, disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Strip. Seventeen countries, plus the 22-member Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
and the entire European Union, threw their weight behind the text, agreed on at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Paleostinians.
Israel has been under mounting pressure to wrap up its campaign in Gaza, where the war has created a humanitarian crisis and devastated much of the territory.