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BUT RUSSIA RECOGNIZES IT?

Soviet Union was one of the major (if not the major) advocates for Palestine in UN. Russia still has significant connections to Palestine. For example, president of Palestine went to a victory day parade in Moscow this year.

And the US, Europe, and Australia are still "lalala i can't hear you"

that's not just in your head, that's the awful reality we live in

Back when they were a communist nation, they and most other communist/aligned countries recognized them.

Commies are cool, as it turns out.

the Internet is yet to recognize New Zealand

But we finally have data on Western Sahara

Why did you have to point this out

Greenland has to abide by Danish policy for foreign relations as its part of the Danish crown. Denmark should recognise it though.

honestly australia is kinda between a rock and a hard place … we have to ride the line between US and china because we’re hugely strategic to china with all our raw resources, with little to no ability to actually defend ourselves because we have such a huge land mass and tiny population (we’re about the size of the US in land mass with a population slightly smaller than texas: imagine if texas alone had to defend the entire US)

we aren’t europe: if we piss off the US we don’t have the money or population to pivot

… also the US has been involved with overturning our elected government twice

that said, we’ve been getting much closer to recognising palestinian recently

Well Myanmar is run by a military dictatorship that murders, disappears and tortures civillians, and has an ongoing public resistance against it since a few years.

When Iran was ruled by the Shah Israel were best buddies and help arm and train his army and intelligence. Guess what they did: murder, disappear and torture tens of thousands of civillians.

When South Africa was still an Apartheid state, Israel was also good friends with them. Guess what they did...

Given our stance it's probably for the best this time.

no, the communist bloc and non-aligned countries recognised palestine in opposition to the western bloc's support of israel, right when palestine declared its independence in 1988

Ireland (and norway iirc) only recognised palestine recently.

The recent development is the recognition by some European and Caribbean countries. The rest of the world has recognized Palestine for decades.

Comoros is a member of the Arab League.

Knights of Malta do have an observer status in the UN, but they're unrelated to the Republic of Malta, which the post is about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta