Will Palestine Recognition Revitalize Separatist Movements in Scotland, Quebec, and Murrawarri? – On September 21, 2025, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine, creating out of whole cloth a country that never existed and has based its entire liberation struggle both upon a fiction and on a legitimization of terrorism.
The three countries’ unilateral recognition undermines diplomacy by absolving the Palestinians of commitments tied to the Palestinian Authority’s creation, including recognition of Israel, forsaking terrorism, and committing to negotiating borders.
London, Ottawa, and Canberra have now done as much to encourage terrorism as did Al Qaeda founder Usama Bin Laden.
That Prime Ministers Keir Starmer, Anthony Albanese, and Mark Carney reward Hamas and accept its narrative of genocide, but ignore a far bloodier conflict in Sudan, also hints at the latent antisemitism, if not racism, that permeates progressive thought.
What Israel Could Do in Response
Backed into a corner, Israel has no choice but to fight back. To accept a Palestinian state now is to rehabilitate Hamas and allow an Iranian beachhead. On some level, each leader understands this; they do not care.
Israel, accordingly, should not only defeat Hamas militarily but also call out the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia at their own game.
Each of the three has separatist movements: Scotland has sought separation from the United Kingdom. Canada has faced a decades-long Quebecois separatist movement.
Australia, which popularized the “indigenous land statement” that have since become popular across Canada and on American university campuses, has spawned a number of separatist movements as long-suppressed aboriginal groups each demand their own homeland on the continent that the United Kingdom wholly colonized under the guise of forming Australia.
Today, Australia is the only colonial regime that occupies an entire continent.
What Action Could Look Like
To frame the hypocrisy of British, Canadian, and Australian actions, Israel should formally recognize Scotland, Quebec, and the Murrawarri Republic that the Murrawarri people along the Culgoa River in northern New South Wales declared in 2013, or perhaps work with the indigenous people in Tasmania who likewise seek their freedom.
Previously, Scotland and Quebec put their ambitions to a vote; some independence activists in both countries may not acquiesce to the legitimacy of previous referendums, as they occurred with the organization or under the control of “settler-colonialists” in London and Ottawa.
Some Scots and Quebecois or, in the future, Welsh or Albertans might come forward seeking arms and finances to advance their own movement. In the past, no country would come close to such action, but the cheap British, Canadian, and Australian virtue signaling opened the floodgates.
Those days are over. After all, if Russia subsidized Scotland and saw it through separatism, then Moscow could knock offline every British submarine base and the nuclear deterrent they enable. London might complain, but they should expect even the State of Palestine, which they now embrace, to vote against the unity of the United Kingdom.
Israel’s encouragement of Quebec separatism, meanwhile, would cost it little and, even if done non-violently, would permanently stain Canada’s moral authority. To support Alberta would likely be to buy Israel an ally, given that province’s resistance to the fashionable nonsense that now consumes Ottawa.
No Western country has more to lose than Australia, however, given how Albanese has both primed his citizenry to self-flagellate and feel guilty about their own nationality. The People’s Republic of China has nothing to lose and everything to gain should it catalyze the multiple separatist movements that Australia now sweeps under the rug.
Too often, Western leaders live in a bubble. They believe in their own exceptionalism and are blind to their own hypocrisy as they virtue signal to appease their own political constituencies. They fail to recognize that the ideologies that underwrite terrorist groups are not easily appeased and will gladly take their fight into their own heartlands. Just as Ukraine fights for Western civilization, liberalism, and democracy on the eastern frontier of Europe, Israel does in the Middle East. That Western powers seek appeasement rather than solidarity is a mistake that guarantees further war and bloodshed for decades to come.
About the Author: Dr. Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum. The opinions and views expressed are his own. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and postwar Iraq. He also spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. For more than a decade, he taught classes at sea about the Horn of Africa and Middle East conflicts, culture, and terrorism, to deployed US Navy and Marine units. The views expressed are the author’s own.
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Jim
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 am
Most countries in the World recognize the Palestinian State… and seemingly more are coming on board all the time.
It’s starting to boil down to Israel and the United States standing alone, isolated from the Community of Civilized Nations. (And Netanyahu talking about Sparta.)
And, here, there is suggestion for retaliatory actions against countries far away from Israel’s borders because they dare defy Israel.
This attitude betrays an arrogance dangerous to the existence of Israel. If I didn’t know better, I’d say the author wants Israel to engage in self-destructive actions which leave it without a friend in the World, even the United States is bitterly divided politically on what Israel is doing in Gaza.
Support for Israel in the U. S. is hovering around 50% after many years of being around 80% and Gaza is the reason for such a precipitous drop in support for Israel.
Ignoring these kind of political realities puts Israel in a dangerous position. But that seems to be the position many Israeli supporters take, seemingly wanting nothing more than to double-down on policies which isolate Israel internationally and politically divides Israel internally (a recent poll showed 72% of Israeli’s want a cease fire in Gaza).
During a speech in Jerusalem on September 15, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Israel’s growing diplomatic and economic isolation amidst the war in Gaza, and suggested the country may have to become a “super-Sparta”. The remarks immediately sparked political and public debate in Israel.
I hope political supporters of Israel rethink their position… a “super-Sparta”?? This is ludicrous.
Seemingly, a “we will retaliate against everyone” mentality. This is the end of Israel (which would be terrible in its own right), but given Israel’s threat posture and doctrine, threatens the World’s peace & prosperity as a whole.
Surely, supporters of Israel can do better than suggest
skulduggery against countries which reject its Gaza policies and do so via mostly symbolic recognition of the Palestinian State.
The bankruptcy of ideas is telling… time to think things through, again… it’s not working… but they are blind to the realities.
Swamplaw Yankee
September 23, 2025 at 2:04 am
The Doctor is in, peer readers! But, what is the learned one written on the prescription? Hmmm. Hard to read the writing.
So, the prescription is limited to the “Guilty Ones”. What about the other empires? Why does the doctor not advise the Israel structure to focus on the last “colonial terrorist” ideology on the world: Putin land?
Israel must recognize every Captive Nation in the Terrorist Federation of Muscovy. It is astounding that the Doctor did not place Putinland as the big spot for Israel to focus on. Maybe we can expect an amended op-ed? -30-
Swamplaw Yankee
September 26, 2025 at 1:31 am
Who are the Tripocrites? How are they much worse than Hypocrites? Peer readers beware of Tripocites and Quadrocrites!! You heard it from the Swamplaw Yankee first.
The Free Nations of Post Russian Forum was just held in a public venue. One would have expected the op-ed to be all over this a million times more than the F-35 s – – t that is hacked out in such volume.
Somehow no one speaks of the united States of Siberia! Where are the op-ed on Karelians, Sakha, Kalmyks, Erzya, Komi, Baskirs, etc.?
The last few days, I expected hundreds would point out that Alberta has no prime ethnic group, unlike say, Quebec and Newfoundland. The new 3T seems unable to speak for the small and indigenous peoples! Why is that? How does 3T + his state structure ignore the huge need for cooperation with National Movements of small and indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation? 3T = Third Trudeau.
Well, it seems as if the MSM is unwilling to question 3T on this topic. Especially in Canada where the Tax dollars flow into the state CBC apparatus as if cosmic matter into a expanding Black Hole. Some how, GAZA steals the whole MSM exposure from the huge numbers of colonized nations inside the terrorist empire of the ruusskie federation. Why is that allowed to continue?
Why does the Doctor not demand that Putin’s terrorist empire is a part of the Doctor’s selection for Israel to agitate about? Hmmm. No adenda seems a-coming around the mountain from the Doc.
Is the lack of high volume support for Ukraine in Israel a very revealing reflection that Israel tangibly rejects Ukraine’s moral and ethical support for small and indigenous people of the world? Despite the BIBLE, Israel just can not seem to loudly laud Ukraine for supporting Democracy for and/or with these captive slaves of the Kremlin Imperialism of Muscovy?
Everyone in the world knows of the many centuries of silencing, dispossession + forced assimilation under Muscovy’s Imperial rule that these cultures still face from Putin’s orc on a daily basis. Who in Israel denies that these peoples are not daily shoved into the meat grinder front line of Genocide that the orc ruusskies have run for centuries inside Ukraine?
Yes, 3T seems to have Justin’s ants in his pants, especially about this Mulatto application to the state of Israel. Why, maybe the op-ed types will slowly reveal.
But, the larger issue of hiding Israel, 3T and others from having a concrete development of state policy for cooperation with National Movements of small and indigenous peoples of the Kremlin Imperialism of Muscovy is so, so obvious a scam.
If Ukraine, under the 1000 year old Genocide knife blade of ruusskie Putin can help fellow oppressed peoples of the terrorist empire of the ruusskie federation so can every other nation state, especially states that are part of the WEST. Or, am I missing some very obvious principle that other peer readers readily perceive? -30-