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This ongoing narrative of recognition and statehood, driven by virtue signaling and political convenience, risks encouraging Hamas and other terrorist groups. By refusing to unequivocally condemn Hamas’s atrocities and demand its defeat, Western and allied leaders inadvertently reinforce the cycle of violence.
In conclusion, the recognition of Palestine as a state—especially amid ongoing violence—is an act of misguided optimism. It sidesteps the hard realities of geopolitics, extremism, and morality. True peace requires clarity, firm action against terrorists, and an honest reckoning with the ideological roots of the conflict. Anything less borders on complicity in the inhumanity Hamas embodies.