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Panama, and Belize have not indicated their positions. Several Latin American
countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, had
already recognized a Palestinian state prior to the most recent lobbying
efforts. Mexico has not yet taken an official stand on this matter.
It is likely, however, that the globalization of the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict will continue if these conditions are present: the stagnation of the
peace process; the eruption of new cycles of violence in the Middle East;
the strengthening of Islamic radical groups in countries that now experience
political turmoil; the presence of neo-populist governments in the region;
and the particular interaction between strategic decisions of international,
regional, national, and local activists.
*Judit Bokser Liwerant is a professor of political science at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she is the director of the Graduate
School of Political and Social Sciences. She has published numerous books as
author and editor and many scientific articles and chapters in the field of political
theory, collective identities, and contemporary Latin American Jewry. She is a
member of the Mexican Academy of Science.