.IT IS An action to "deliver love to the Middle East", according to Simon Harris, Ireland's prime minister. On May 22nd his nation, alongside Norway and Spain, said that it will formally identify Palestine as a state. Israel recalled its ambassadors coming from all three nations in response its own international minister put down the triad's choice as a "altered action" and mentioned it was actually documentation, in the wake of Hamas's strike on Israel on October 7th, that "violence pays". Ireland, Norway as well as Spain are actually joining the majority of nations: virtually three-quarters of members of the UN identify Palestine. What exactly carries out that way-- and also who are the holdouts?