Malta to recognise the state of palestine.

Wait wait wait wait. I know I've been surprised by this map numerous times.

BUT RUSSIA RECOGNIZES IT?

Also looking at this map, it seems the majority of the population of Earth recognizes it.

So in my head, that means that Palestine is 100% a nation. With sovereignty. And the US, Europe, and Australia are still "lalala i can't hear you" and "can't be a genocide if you aren't a targeted group of people that we recognize lalalalala."

BUT RUSSIA RECOGNIZES IT?
Soviet Union was one of the major (if not the major) advocates for Palestine in UN. Russia still has significant connections to Palestine. For example, president of Palestine went to a victory day parade in Moscow this year.
And the US, Europe, and Australia are still "lalala i can't hear you"
that's not just in your head, that's the awful reality we live in
Back when they were a communist nation, they and most other communist/aligned countries recognized them.
Commies are cool, as it turns out.
- Commies are cool, as it turns out.
  Kinda depends on what kind of commie. Authoritarians like CCP, Bolsheviks and the Kim family? Never. But the Kronstadt sailors who died fighting the hypocrisies of the Bolsheviks, and the Japanese Communist Party who chose the peaceful route to try to gain power? They are cool.
- the USSR was the first state to recognize Israel. authoritarian commies are a fucking joke
- Commies are just as bad as Nazis.
  That's the truth. It's a failed murderous ideology that killed tens of millions in a few short decades and brought nothing but poverty, tyranny, death, and destruction everywhere it went. It's flawed in both theory and practice, which is why it collapsed. All the modern day Marxists literally cannot defend this shitty ideology on it's own merits. Their worldview is supported entirely on lies, fallacies, and willful ignorance.
  You can downvote and seethe all you want, won't change the reality one bit.

Maps without New Zealand

the Internet is yet to recognize New Zealand
- Well, might as well start here. Do you recognize it?
But we finally have data on Western Sahara
- And many dozens cheered

The worst part of this map is that they use a different shade of green in the key to the one they use in the map. /s

Why did you have to point this out
- I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious. I can't not see it.

Canada, Greenland, Australia, and Japan should totally recognize Palestine. It's not like they need to keep pleasing the US now that it's actively spitting in their face.

Greenland has to abide by Danish policy for foreign relations as its part of the Danish crown. Denmark should recognise it though.
honestly australia is kinda between a rock and a hard place … we have to ride the line between US and china because we’re hugely strategic to china with all our raw resources, with little to no ability to actually defend ourselves because we have such a huge land mass and tiny population (we’re about the size of the US in land mass with a population slightly smaller than texas: imagine if texas alone had to defend the entire US)
we aren’t europe: if we piss off the US we don’t have the money or population to pivot
… also the US has been involved with overturning our elected government twice
that said, we’ve been getting much closer to recognising palestinian recently
- CANZUK ✊ 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧
Yeah… disgustingly strong zionist lobbying in Canada…
- Corbyn in the UK ten years ago had a huge groundswell of popular support that at one point looked like carrying Labour to a 1997-style landslide, until he was taken down by an organised campaign of pearl-clutchy disingenuous accusations of anti-semitism over his support for Palestine; a campaign that the neoliberals in his party were all too happy to play along with.
It's something to do with the stupid Commonwealth, not the US
- I think I'm going to need a source on that one. We've had independent foreign policy for a long time.
Nobody in the west really give a single fucking shit about Palestine, it has nothing to do with us and we dont want nothing to do with it. Keep it on the other side of the sea.
- Nobody in the west really give a single fucking shit about Palestine
  half true
  it has nothing to do with us
  not true, Zionism was originally a Christian ideology that originated in Europe and the founders of Israel and its leadership to this day are majority European Jews and see Israel as an extension of Western Civilization
- What absolute nonsense

People think we are the civilized ones when in reality we are just savages with nukes.

People think we are the civilized one
No one thinks that.
we've gone completely M.A.D.

Myanmar seems like an odd gap. A quick search just seems to say Myanmar and Israel have a long diplomatic history and some minor arms sales?

Well Myanmar is run by a military dictatorship that murders, disappears and tortures civillians, and has an ongoing public resistance against it since a few years.
When Iran was ruled by the Shah Israel were best buddies and help arm and train his army and intelligence. Guess what they did: murder, disappear and torture tens of thousands of civillians.
When South Africa was still an Apartheid state, Israel was also good friends with them. Guess what they did...
Yeah Israel is one of half a dozen countries that continued to deal arms to Myanmar after the Rohingya Genocide.

Fingers crossed that Malta's support is what finally gets this nonsense sorted out once and for all.

.....and Aotearoa/New Zealand falls off the map again. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Given our stance it's probably for the best this time.
hawai too
TIL of Aotearoa, thanks for sharing. That's a bad-ass name, NZ should switch back to that.

I'm surprised that there's so many countries who recognize Palestine. Is this a recent development?

no, the communist bloc and non-aligned countries recognised palestine in opposition to the western bloc's support of israel, right when palestine declared its independence in 1988
Ireland (and norway iirc) only recognised palestine recently.
- spain too i think
  edit: This wikipedia page has a table which you can sort by date if recognition
  All the countries that recognized Palestine in the last two years are: Mexico (Feb 2025), Armenia, Slovenia (June 2024), Ireland, Norway, Spain, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago (May 2024), Jamaica, Barbados (April 2024)
The recent development is the recognition by some European and Caribbean countries. The rest of the world has recognized Palestine for decades.
- As opposed to France and UK who also don't recognize Palestine and in the case of the UK have at least as much responsibility for the conflict?
  But hey, fuck me for learning something new, right?
Typical feddit.org account

Even Comoros recognize Palestine since 1988

Comoros is a member of the Arab League.

Isn't Malta like the last Crusader state? Pretty sure the knights of malta have some sort of UN special observer status.

Knights of Malta do have an observer status in the UN, but they're unrelated to the Republic of Malta, which the post is about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta

Just as the scribes at the Burger Eagle Institute predicted

what a massive increase from a few years ago am proud

Fuck, even POLAND recognises them.

ok but why is it orange?

Wow that's a whole lot of countries sending thoughts and prayers.

Isn't that just the gum that the boot is about to step on after kicking Sicily?

Why does Malta hate Jews?

Only the evil, genocidal ones. The ones that are murdering children. The ones causing famine in Palestine.
They’re also known worldwide as: The Bad Guys™
- Perhaps because they launched the worst imaginable form of pogrom, with mass casualties, just a year or two ago?
Your sarcastic joke didn't quite take off xd
They don't.
Oh wow you are a zionist too? Christ I knew you were fucking annoying but I didn't think you were a piece of shit
- Nobody understands me.
Malta is in cahoots with France on “a crusade against the Jewish state.”
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