Canada issued a declaration Sunday officially recognizing the state of Palestine, a significant shift in this country’s foreign policy that previously said such recognition would only come after a negotiated peace agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. In a statement, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada believes it can no longer wait because the viability of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is eroding. “The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established,” he said. “It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which...