In recent weeks, the depressing European political discourse on Gaza – and more generally, on the right of Palestinians to self-determination – has cast a few rays of light onto a dismal situation.
France, followed by the UK and Canada, formally announced its intentions to fully recognise a Palestinian state next month.
The first two countries share the biggest historical responsibility for the mayhem endured by the Middle East and its people after the tragic decisions they took a century ago: from the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, to the 1917 Balfour Declaration, to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and its fallout.
If legal rights had real value, and had the countries of the region been braver and savvier, these two top colonial powers would have been buried under a long overdue class-action lawsuit worth billions of dollars for the immense damage they have inflicted on the Middle East.
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