OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Sunday that Canada now formally recognizes a Palestinian state. Here’s an updated look at what this means, and what comes next.

Is Palestine a country?

The name Palestine has been attached to an area of the Middle East for centuries. Britain took control of the region after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

The U.K. endorsed calls by Jewish organizations to populate the area based on Jews’ ancestral ties to the Middle East. The Zionist movement emerged as a response to centuries of violent persecution of Jews in Europe, up to and including the Holocaust.

After Israel established itself as a country in 1948 in a war that displaced many Palestinians, it fought a series of battles with Arab nations over decades.

At the end of the 1967 Six-D

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