With the war, and with no consensus on land, population, or leadership, the path to a real Palestinian state anytime soon remains blocked. Declarations will not change this reality. On July 30, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his intention to recognize an independent Palestinian state with conditions at the UN General Assembly in September. Calling the path to a two-state solution “untenable,” he opened the door to recognition due to Hamas’s terrorism, settlement expansion, and a “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster” in Gaza.