The other day in my developing areas class, a student got laughed at for thinking that Palestine is a country. So i thought to myself, who decides? Other countries.
Lets take a look at Kosovo, although claiming to be a country for years, it was not accepted until England and the United States said it was. Russia and Serbia, of course, do not recognize them to be a country. Ultimately, the country(s) with the most power decide when a country is actually a country. In the case of Kosovo, Russia is not as powerful as the west... so I guess it is a country. On the other hand, Palestine, since it too is not as powerful as the west, is not a country.
On another note, I wonder if the United States would still be backing Israel if, lets say, Israel was a muslim nation and Palestine a christian one.
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