The Palestinians’ cause is justified considering how they were promised nearly half the territory when Israel was created in 1947, and they came close enough to recognition after the Oslo Accord in 1993

The international call for a Palestinian state has grown to an impressive list of 147 countries (of 193 in the UN fold) as the UK, Australia, Canada and Portugal recognised it just ahead of the United Nations General Assembly which begins today. The outrage over the continuing war in Gaza that has brought about death and destruction, besides imposing hunger and starvation on a couple of million people, is the immediate trigger for so many allies of the USA coming forward now to recognise a home for the Palestinians whose cause for a homeland has been a historically just one.

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