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Chairman Mast Statement on Australia, Canada, U.K. Recognizing ‘State of Palestine’

September 21, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement in response to Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom formally recognizing a "State of Palestine." 

“Recognition of a ‘State of Palestine’ is empty virtue signaling that only rewards the Hamas butchers and rapists.”

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