00:00 Norway, Ireland and Spain announced that they will officially recognize a Palestinian state next week,
00:04 making the state of Israel furious.
00:06 While the Israeli war against Gaza has been raging for 7 months, with nearly 34,000 Palestinians killed,
00:10 Madrid wants to recognize Palestine as a state by July and encourages its neighbors to follow its footsteps.
00:14 Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a partisan of Palestinian rights,
00:17 considers recognition as a way to reach a two-state solution and a possible key to end the conflict that began in October.
00:24 Israel, dissatisfied with this decision, recalled its ambassadors from Dublin and Oslo and threatened to do the same in Spain.
00:29 In total, 139 countries out of 193 consider Palestine as a state.
00:33 Among them are Iceland, Poland and Romania, as well as countries such as Russia, China and Nigeria.
00:37 The European Union as a whole, including France and the United Kingdom, does not recognize Palestine, not more than the United States.
00:42 According to experts, although the recognition of Palestine is increasing, the illegal occupation of Israel's lands limits the impact of these decisions.
00:48 To exert real pressure on Israel, two actions are conceivable.
00:51 Suspend the EU-Israel association agreement, which governs trade talks between the bloc and Israel, and cease arms sales.
00:57 Among the EU countries, only Spain has imposed a embargo on weapons in Israel.
01:00 However, Germany and Italy are the main suppliers of weapons to Israel, after the United States.
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