.IT IS A measure to "deliver peace to the Middle East", depending on to Simon Harris, Ireland's prime minister. On Might 22nd his country, together with Norway and also Spain, pointed out that it would formally acknowledge Palestine as a state. Israel remembered its own ambassadors from all three countries in action its foreign administrator punished the triad's decision as a "distorted step" as well as said it was documentation, following Hamas's assault on Israel on October 7th, that "terrorism pays". Ireland, Norway and Spain are signing up with the majority of countries: practically three-quarters of participants of the UN recognise Palestine. Just what carries out that mean-- and who are the holdouts?