Two years since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s seemingly endless retribution campaign against Gaza, several Western nations—including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Australia—have announced that they now recognize a Palestinian state. The recognitions represent mounting global outrage over Israel’s war in Gaza, which has led to a human-made famine , the annihilation of most the enclave’s infrastructure, and what a growing chorus of experts describe as