Within the last several weeks, we have heard from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

That came on the heels of French President Emmanuel Macron, who in July announced his plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September, hosting a conference in New York to create that likelihood. Macron had told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that “he was under immense pressure at home” and would most likely recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.

We know, of course, that some of that “immense pressure” has to do with the growing demographic realities that France—and Europe at large—has been confronting over the years.

Still, his Western counterparts declined to join Macron’s stance last month, until they quickly did this

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