.IT IS ACTUALLY A step to "carry peace to the Middle East", according to Simon Harris, Ireland's head of state. On May 22nd his nation, in addition to Norway and Spain, said that it would officially acknowledge Palestine as a state. Israel remembered its own emissaries coming from all three nations in response its own foreign administrator punished the trio's choice as a "altered step" and said it was evidence, in the wake of Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7th, that "violence pays for". Ireland, Norway and Spain are signing up with the majority of nations: almost three-quarters of participants of the UN recognise Palestine. What exactly performs that way-- and also that are actually the holdouts?