Canada recognizes a Palestinian state. Israel says it is not beginning. So what do the Palestinians mean?

Last Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will recognize the Palestinian state.

In recent weeks, Canada, Australia, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France have joined the majority of the United Nations – 147 out of 193 – who already get to know Palestine as a country.

Carney said that recognition of motivated by the “declared policy” of the current Israeli government of preventing a Palestinian state from establishing it from ever.

The Palestinian Authority received the move of Canada and Hamas officials, as the latter linked the post -killer advertisement on October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel.

It is not surprising that these advertisements for recognition were condemned by Israel quickly. Danny Donnon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, called “empty ads.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that everything he does was to give a “huge reward for terrorism.”

Netanyahu also added: “This will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established in the west of the Jordan River,” Netanyahu also added.

As Netanyahu continues to reject a two -state solution, what does the broader recognition of a Palestinian state indicate? Is it just a symbol or may have some practical repercussions for the Palestinians?

CBC News explores these questions.

What defines the state?

Experts in international relations say the answer to what determines the state is not simple.

“The truth is that it is amazingly liquid,” said Catherine Frost, a professor of political science at McMaster University in Hamilton.

The Montevido Agreement for the Rights and Duties of Countries, established in 1933, has set four state criteria: permanent population; A specific area; government; The ability to enter relations with other countries.

But just because the geographical entity may meet these criteria does not mean that a state will be adopted.

I suggested that recognition of the country is subjective, and this means that the state is born when another country recognizes it in this way. She said that confession is always bilateral.

“It is between a country that says,” I see you, to another country. “

This was partly because there was no clear basis for the recognition of countries.

He said that over the years, the countries – or not recognized – recognized political accounts.

“I think the main thing here to remember is that the recognition was not purely legal. It was very political.”

This means that there is no internationally acceptable international law on how appreciation occurred, Kiris said.

Does the Palestinian state meet the standards of conferences for the year 1933? Does it matter?

The situation in the Palestinian territories raised questions among international relations experts about whether it fulfills the standards of the state set by the 1933 agreement.

The borders are disputed, and there is no single government entity that oversees or controls the main areas that will form a Palestinian state.

“The reality today is arguing against this important criterion in defining the conference,” wrote Daniel Cortzer, a former American ambassador to Egypt and Israel and a professor at the College of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

However, the Palestinian state meets the standards of permanent population. While it has been waived, the borders of the Palestinian state are largely seen as those that will include the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

Although Mahmoud Abbas is the Palestinian president, the Palestinian Authority, which he leads, has limited administrative control in parts of the West Bank. The West Bank, along with East Jerusalem, is occupied by the Israeli army and under Israeli control.

The Palestinian Authority ran Gaza after Israel withdrew from the region in 2005, before Hamas chased it two years later. Now, however, the region is a war zone and is occupied by Israeli forces, with remaining questions about who will supervise the area in the post -war scenario.

But the disputed border is not necessarily an obstacle to recognition of the state, says Frost. She noted that the latest member of the United Nations, South Sudan, was accepted in 2011 while its borders were not formed. In fact, there are still border conflicts between South Sudan and Sudan.

“All these criteria are in the eye of the beholder,” she said.

What is the importance of Canada and other recognition of the Palestinian state?

Some international experts described this recent recognition as a Palestinian state as symbolic. Cortzer also wrote in the Atlantic Ocean, “Although Israel does not have the power to veto the international recognition of the state of Palestine, it controls the region, and thus controls whether anything comes from diplomatic recognition.”

“Diplomatic, nothing will change almost as a result of increasing international support for the Palestinian state. Palestinians will enjoy augmented standing in some international forums, such as the International Criminal Court, but that will not change their experience financially,” he wrote.

Roman Le Pov, a professor of international law at the University of Aix Marseille in southern France, said that from a legal point of view, the recognition is “inconceivable.”

“Palestine has no new rights since it has been recognized by France, Canada and (the United Kingdom),” Loub said.

But Le Pob said that this recognition is important, as the number of United Nations members who do not recognize the Palestinian state continues to decline, and they become a smaller minority.

Likewise, all members of the United Nations Security Council, with the exception of the United States, are now recognizing a Palestinian state. (However, the American opposition means that Palestine will not become a full member of the United Nations and instead it maintains the condition of the observer.)

Le Pob said that the new recognition from countries such as Canada, Australia, Portugal, Britain and France means that they can pass international trade treaties with the newly recognized country, which would give the Palestinians more access to global goods.

Also, recognition of a Palestinian state provides a basis for “a complete review of bilateral relations with Israel.” ARDI pointA associate professor at the College of Law at Queens University and a former United Nations official told the New York Times.

Emis told the Times that the country that recognizes Palestine must review the agreements with Israel to ensure that Israel does not violate its obligations towards the Palestinian state.

Canada already has a representative office in Ramallah, the West Bank, but Frost says that Canada can now create an embassy there, and send an official ambassador, while Ottawa can welcome one of the newly recognized state.

“The ambassadors are very important figures in international law,” said Frost. “It is a very special class of the diplomatic relationship that you only have between countries.”