00:00Belgium is now set to recognize a Palestinian state.
00:03How significant do you think this is, diplomatically speaking, for Israel?
00:06It's a diplomatic setback for Israel, to be sure.
00:09I think that's the entire intention of it.
00:11It certainly doesn't conjure up a Palestinian state.
00:13There isn't one now, and there won't be as a result of the recognition.
00:17Weirdly, the Belgian statement also says that the formalization of the recognition
00:21will only happen after the last of the Israeli hostages,
00:25which Hamas abducted on October 7th, is returned.
00:27So I don't know what kind of timescale that puts on any practical import for it.
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