Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia may soon recognize Palestine as an independent state. This was stated by diplomat Abdel Hafiz Nofal.
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“Slovenia – we are expecting one of these days. We are waiting for Luxembourg in the near future. We are waiting for Belgium, Portugal. The Europeans began to understand that something is not working out. Why is Israel doing the same thing that happened after the Second World War, the Holocaust and all this? Why do they do that? And they started asking this question in Europe,” he said.
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The diplomat emphasized that even in US universities “they began to blame Israel.”
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“Even within Israel there is a big problem. Because, you know, it’s the eighth month of the war, and no one can stop Israel. How can this be? They have more than 500 thousand Israelis who have dual citizenship. They have already left the country. They are not used to to such a war,” Nofal added.
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Earlier, the authorities of Ireland, Spain and Norway announced their decision to recognize Palestinian statehood. In response, the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced the recall of ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo for consultations. At the same time, the heads of the diplomatic missions of Ireland, Spain and Norway in Israel were summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state, where they were declared a demarche.
