Why does a Palestinian state get recognition but not Taiwan? 

By: Michael Mazza and Shay Khatiri | The Hill |

Several liberal democracies this week recognized a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly.

A trend that began in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks is picking up steam, with the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and France joining in. This is despite the fact that there is no Palestinian state to recognize — and that there is every indication that if it did exist, it would be a corrupt dictatorship at best, aligned with the China–Russia–Iran axis of tyranny and a threat to international peace.

Unlike this imagined Palestinian state, there is a real country, a vibrant liberal democracy aligned with the free world, which most of the world refuses to recognize: Taiwan. The comparison between the two cases exposes the moral unseriousness and domestic fan-serving on the part of these democracies.

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