Italy to vote on recognition of Palestinian state
Italy to vote on recognition of Palestinian state
Ruling Democratic Party of PM Matteo Renzi said to be ready to back motion in effort to restart peace talks between Israel, PA
By Times of Israel staff February 19, 2015, 6:02 am
via Italy to vote on recognition of Palestinian state | The Times of Israel.
The Italian parliament was set to vote on a non-binding bill calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state, following similar initiatives last year by France, Britain, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The Swedish government formally recognized a Palestinian state in October.
Italian lawmakers may vote on the motion put forth by MPs from the Left Ecology Freedom and the Socialist Party as soon as Thursday. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party was reportedly ready to back the initiative, according to the International Business Times.
The bill urges the government “to recognize the state of Palestine so that negotiations to reach a two-state solution are restarted.”
In December, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state “in principle.”
The motion was a watered-down version of an original resolution which had urged EU member states to recognize a Palestinian state unconditionally. Lawmakers approved the motion by 498 votes to 88 with 111 abstentions.
A bid by the Palestinian Authority to the UN Security Council asking for a resolution backing a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines and an Israeli withdrawal to those lines by 2017 was shot down in December.
The Palestinian Authority estimates that 135 countries have now recognized Palestine as a state, although that number is disputed and several recognitions by EU member states date back to the Soviet era.
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WarSclerotic 
February 19, 2015 at 2:38 PM
“Italy to vote on recognition of Palestinian state” ?
Italy bowing down on bended knee and paying obeisance to its conqueror and future master !
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder[er] is less to fear.”
– – Marcus Tullius Cicero – 107-44 BC
Being a timeless truth, Cicero’s statement is just as true of the leaders of the EU and the Communist traitors in the Italian government today as it was of traitors in his own day, 2000 years ago.
February 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM
I’m having a hard time reconciling these two articles…recognizing a Palestinian state and now this…
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/18/italy-prepares-for-war-with-isis-from-the-south/
February 19, 2015 at 4:24 PM
ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a ‘psychological weapon’ in chilling echo of Gaddafi’s prophecy that the Mediterranean ‘will become a sea of chaos
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2958517/The-Mediterranean-sea-chaos-Gaddafi-s-chilling-prophecy-interview-ISIS-threatens-send-500-000-migrants-Europe-psychological-weapon-bombed.html
February 19, 2015 at 4:31 PM
Reconcile ?
My guess? From reading Bat Ye’or…
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
The megalomaniacal delusional creators of Eurabia thought they were going to unite with Islamic North Africa and the Middle East oil kingdoms to create a Euro-Arab superstate that would rival the American superpower.
The Europeans thought they would retain the upper hand, Islam of course had other ideas. Flooding Europe with Muslim immigrants was one of their foremost demands and part of the deal, a demand to which the traitorous EU leadership agreed and worked most assiduously to satisfy, to the great regret of the European citizens.
To the leaders of the EU, recognition of a Palestinian state is an acceptable step in the creation of their dystopian dream of Eurabia, which they intend to dominate. But Islam sees weakness in Europe and has no intention of playing second fiddle to the Europeans, they intend to establish their Caliphate supreme over both Arabia and Europe. ISIS is going in for the kill.
Stay tuned.
February 19, 2015 at 9:09 PM
Seems rather ironic Italy would go to war with Muslims while granting them a state. What a mess. On the other hand, most other countries with the exception of Israel are guilty of the same hypocrisy.