Malta will announce its formal recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Monday, the Prime Minister's Office said, joining a group of countries in making the move.

Netanyahu wants to move 600,000 Gazans into what sounds like a concentration camp. Hmm, what is next, gas chambers? They are a cheaper way of exterminating your enemy than bullets and bombs. I remember it has been done somewhere before.

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