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All these countries are making this decision to recognize a Palestinian state,

therefore October 7th becomes Palestinian Independence Day.

The basic question is, if you're going to do recognition,

why not link recognition to the release

of hostages and Hamas relinquishing arms and power? Why not make Hamas the obstacle

to recognition, not the midwife of recognition? I mean, the biggest evidence of all is that

Hamas is celebrating this as its achievement.

It's 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 21st here in New York City. It's 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 21st in Israel as Israelis, and all of us

get ready for the Rosh Hashanah holiday this week. In Israel, the IDF continues its ground

offensive in Gaza City, where the military spokesperson said it would operate with, quote, unprecedented

force. As a Friday, the idf said it estimated that

four hundred and eighty thousand gossans had already fled the area which is roughly half of gaza

city's population on friday the u.n security council failed to pass a resolution that would have

prevented the reimposition of snapback sanctions on

Iran. This is because the Iranian regime is noncompliant with its obligations under the JCPOA

nuclear agreement. Also on Friday, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in support of a

two-state solution, or to advance the process for a two-state solution,

to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 142 states voting in favor, 10 voting against,

including the United States, and 12 abstaining. Today, Sunday, the prime ministers of the UK,

Canada, and Australia announced official recognition of a

Palestinian state without elaborating as to the so-called state's borders or its leadership.

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