The German Frankfurter Zeitung website published an article on September 20 entitled "Palestine has little left", which says that when more international recognition is reached, Palestine has actually little left.
About three-quarters of the UN member states have already recognized the Palestinian state.Now important roles on the international stage such as Australia, France, Britain will follow.The Palestinian Authority calls it a “historic turning point” and predicts that the 58-year occupation of Israel is about to become history.
But this deliberately expressed optimism is purely fantasy, and the reality is cruel: as more and more countries recognize the Palestinian state, Palestine is becoming more and more incapable of calling it a state.
The article says that Palestine is divided into three parts: the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.These three areas are home to about 5.5 million Palestinians, but their situation is different.This is because East Jerusalem has been annexed by Israel; the West Bank is occupied to varying degrees, with half a million Israeli settlers living there; and Gaza has been ruled by Palestinians since the Israeli army withdrew in 2005.
Gaza on the coast is undoubtedly the most severe situation. Israel has been fighting there for nearly two years since it suffered an unprecedented and brutal terrorist attack by Hamas. For some time, military operations against Hamas have been virtually endless, with devastating consequences for the local population. More and more people believe that Israel is fighting a war of destruction against the Palestinians in Gaza and engaging in genocide. The Israeli government and army categorically deny it, but do not deny that they want to expel residents from Gaza. This is partly pretended as a humanitarian measure.
The Palestinian people are in danger not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. As a direct consequence of Hamas's terrorist attacks on Israel, there has been a surge in atrocities by Israeli armed settlers. These people break into the villages of poor Palestinian herders day and night, harass the residents, steal their flocks and deprive them of their livelihood. Nowadays, large areas of land have become "forbidden zones" for Palestinians. The outside world feels that the Israeli military police are cooperating with these settlers, but the Israeli authorities have done little to dispel this impression.
The article stated that in recent years, the nature of the Israeli occupation has undergone significant changes and is close to what experts call "de facto annexation": although Palestine still does not nominally belong to Israel, more and more regulations and administrative structures are following Israel's example. Settlers have considerable influence in Netanyahu's government, and these people are getting closer and closer to its goal of de facto annexing the occupied territories to Israel. But it is unknown whether they can do the same legally soon.
Also unknown is the fate of the Palestinians. Israel certainly does not want to grant citizenship to Palestinians. The current trend is that Palestinians' freedom of movement is increasingly restricted. For example, in recent months, the Israeli military has built yellow iron gates on many roads, which can block roads, villages and towns at any time. The Palestinian Authority says there are currently more than 1,200 such yellow iron gates in the West Bank.
Israeli Treasury Minister Smotrich recently proposed the annexation of 82% of the land on the West Bank. According to the map he presented, only six towns were excluded. That is, this is what a Palestinian state might look like: 6 squares of land blocked by the Yellow Iron Gate.
Source: Reference News