Tánaiste Micheal Martin announced in the Dail Chamber that Ireland intends to recognize the Palestinian state, becoming the first EU state to do so. This decision is seen as a diplomatic acknowledgment of Palestinian self-government and a political admonishment of Israel's actions.
Tánaiste Micheal Martin speaking in the Dail Chamber on Tuesday, where he said that Ireland intended to recognise the Palestinian state Although Ireland in 1980 was the first EU state to endorse the idea of Palestinian statehood, turning this aspiration into actual recognition of that state has taken nearly a quarter of a century.
In 2014 the Oireachtas passed resolutions calling on the Government to “officially recognise the state of Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital, as established in UN resolutions, as a further positive contribution to securing a negotiated two-state settlement to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.” To no avail.
Israel has argued, and until now most EU member states have accepted, that recognition would be premature, pre-empting the shape of agreement reached between it and Palestine in final settlement talks in the framework of the now largely moribund Oslo peace accords and their promise of a two-state solution. Israel has for some years refused to talk.Look inside: Stunning beachfront house hovering over the water in Howth for €3.
“We have agreed,” Martin told the Dáil, “that the undermining of the Oslo accords and therefore the agreement to create two states has reached a point where the accords’ approach of recognition after a final agreement is not credible or tenable any longer.” The decision is also an important implied challenge to an unwilling Israel to accept a Palestinian Authority role in the administering of Gaza post-Israeli withdrawal.
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