Recognising Palestine: Why now, and what does it mean? | Start Here

Recognising Palestine: Why now, and what does it mean? | Start Here

Why more countries are recognising the State of Palestine.

The United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia are among a new wave of countries planning to recognise Palestine as a state at this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting. What does this actually mean? And what, if anything, does it change?

This episode features:

Shibley Telhami | Professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland

Diana Buttu | Palestinian lawyer and analyst

Michael Lynk | Professor emeritus of law at Western University and former United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories

Source: Aljazeera

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