Recognition of Palestine roils European countries

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Photo by Vincenzo Brandi, L’Antidiplomatico. In recent days, announcements of the imminent “recognition” of a nonexistent “state of Palestine” have intensified, including several governments that until now have been close allies of Israel and hostile to the Palestinian resistance, such as France, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Even Germany, the most staunchly pro-Zionist state and Israel's second-largest arms supplier after the United States, h…