Allies that recognize a Palestinian state betray U.S.

Britain, Australia, France and Canada are rewarding terrorism and strengthening the genocidal ambitions of the global jihad

- JOSH HAMMER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MANY MEMBER countries are pushing at the U.N. for recognition of a Palestinian state.

FOUR OF AMERICA'S nominally closest allies - Britain, Australia, France and Canada disgraced themselves this week by recognizing a so-called Palestinian state. In so doing, these nations didn't merely betray their Western civilizational inheritance.

They also rewarded terrorism, strengthened the genocidal ambitions of the global jihad and sent a chilling message: The path to international legitimacy runs not through the difficult work of building up a nation-state and engaging in diplomacy, but through mass murder, the weaponization of transnational institutions and the erasure of historical truth.

The Trump administration has already denounced this craven capitulation by our allies. There should be no recognition of an independent Palestinian state at this moment in history. Such a recognition is an abdication not only of basic human decency, but also of national interest and strategic sanity.

The global march toward recognition of an independent Palestinian state ignores decades of brutal facts on the ground as well as the specific tide of blood behind this latest surge. It was less than two years ago - Oct. 7, 2023 - that Hamas launched the most barbaric anti-Jewish pogrom since the Holocaust: 6,000 terrorists poured into Israel, massacring roughly 1,200 innocent people in acts of unconscionable depravity - systematic rape, torture, kidnapping of babies. The terrorists livestreamed their own atrocities and dragged more than 250 hostages back to Gaza's sprawling subterranean terror dungeons, where dozens remain to this day.