Recognize Palestine, Then Put Real Pressure on Israel

Meaningful international support for Palestinian liberation remains necessary to defeat terrorism.

Palestinian children wave the Palestinian national flag at the Bureij camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip. September 25, 2025, 12:42 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Writing in Wednesday’s New York Times , Israel’s former minister of defense, Benny Gantz, criticized the growing wave of Western governments recognizing the state of Palestine. “The growing support in the West for recognition is too often framed as a rebuke of both Mr. Netanyahu and his war policies,” Gantz wrote, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The truth is that international recognition of Palestinian statehood under current

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