Keir Starmer is not someone given to get carried away by passion. Both their decisions, as their rectifications, are executed with the coldness and the method of whom he was a lawyer and prosecutor rather than politician. If Israel did not immediately fulfill a series of conditions that included the end of the famine in Gaza, a high fire in the region and the commitment “with a long -term process that concludes with a solution of two states.” Starmer has concluded that none of this has happened, and this Sunday he announced a historical step. The same day, Canada, Australia and Portugal have confirmed that they also recognize the Palestinian State.
Downing Street has published a video statement by the Prime Minister in which the Labor leader defends “the inalienable right of the Palestinian people” to have a state, as well as “the moral responsibility of acting” that the international community has, and its deaf ears to the requests of a pause in the conflict.
Today, to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis, and a two state solution, the United Kingdom formally recognises the State of Palestine.
– Keir Starmer (@keir_starmer)
“Given the growing horror that we witness in the Middle East, today, to revive the hope of peace and the solution of two states, I clearly say, as prime minister of this great country, that the United Kingdom formally recognizes the state of Palestine,” Starmer proclaimed.
The recognition of Palestine is no longer going back, and has advanced to that of others such as that of the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron, which will officially take place next week, during the United Nations General Assembly that will be held in New York.
Despite the calculation and the coldness with which Starmer has ended up adopting his decision, the prime minister has silenced the voices of the most critical sectors of his party, which distrusted an announcement that was accompanied by conditions.
The prime minister has pointed out in his speech that the situation in Gaza “has worsened significantly in recent weeks,” and has described as “intolerable” the images of famine and suffering that are seen in the strip.
The United Kingdom, the country under whose mandate the Zionist cause grew in Palestine, responsible for the Balfour Declaration, which encouraged the creation of a “home for the Jews” in that region of the world, now promotes its decision, and all the symbolism it entails, a strategy of response to Israel already advanced by other nations: France, Portugal or Australia have announced their irrevocable decision to do so during the general assembly of the general assembly of the general assembly of the general assembly UN
Starmer wanted to wait for the announcement, not to introduce a discord factor in a few days of pomp and ceremony. In fact, the matter was raised during the joint press conference and both politicians dodged the controversy. Trump just pointed out that it was an issue that they did not agree.
Message against Hamas
Starmer’s decision is a turn regarding the historical position of the United Kingdom government, which has always defended the solution of the two states, but understood that Palestine’s recognition should be the last step of a negotiation process and mutual assignments.
The British government knows that the measure will cause the wrath of conservative sectors, of the families of the hostages that remain retained in Gaza, of the Israeli government (which considers recognition a way of rewarding Hamas’s terrorism) and, above all, of the United States, the most faithful ally of Netanyahu.
“Most of us want a solution of two states for the crisis of the Middle East,” he said in the newspaper The Daily Telegraph The leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch. “But it is obvious, and the United States has been very clear in this regard, that the recognition of a Palestinian State at the moment, without the hostages have been released, is a prize for terrorism.”
To convey a message of calm to all of them, Starmer will insist on his hard condemnation of Hamas, and in pointing out that his demands to this organization remain “absolute”: the unconditional delivery of the hostages and a high immediate fire. The prime minister, who already made clear to Trump, during the state visit, and in previous statements, which Hamas will never be part of a future government solution in Palestine, will reiterate that commitment this Sunday.
In the coming weeks, Downing Street announced, the British government will announce an increase in sanctions already in force against Hamas, with the aim of increasing pressure on the organization.
