.IT IS ACTUALLY A measure to "bring love halfway East", according to Simon Harris, Ireland's prime minister. On May 22nd his country, along with Norway and Spain, said that it will officially acknowledge Palestine as a state. Israel remembered its own ambassadors from all 3 nations in action its international official punished the trio's choice as a "distorted step" and said it was actually evidence, following Hamas's assault on Israel on October 7th, that "violence pays out". Ireland, Norway and also Spain are signing up with the majority of nations: nearly three-quarters of members of the UN acknowledge Palestine. Just what carries out that mean-- and that are actually the holdouts?