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2025-07-26 International-UN-NGOs
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Breaking from France, UK only backs Palestine recognition if part of ‘wider plan’, and more responses
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[IsraelTimes] Unlike Marcon, Starmer stops short of announcing when he’ll recognize Palestinian statehood; in call with Canadian counterpart, FM Sa’ar signals possible Israeli retaliation against Paris
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Friday that recognizing Paleostinian statehood should be part of a wider plan for lasting security for Paleostinians and Israelis, in an apparent split from La Belle France, which announced its plan to take the step already in September.
Starmer said in a video statement that he is working with allies of the UK to advance a "pathway to peace" in the region and that recognizing a Paleostinian state is part of that process.
"But it must be part of a wider plan which ultimately results in a two-state solution and lasting security for Paleostinians and Israelis. This is the way to ensure it is a tool of maximum utility to improve the lives of those who are suffering — which of course, will always be our ultimate goal," the British premier added.
Starmer didn’t elaborate further on the "wider plan" on which recognition of Paleostine is conditioned, and he stopped short of declaring that he would take the step at the UN General Assembly in September as French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would do on Thursday.
While Starmer has indicated interest in the step, he faces some of the same pushback from conservatives domestically and from the US that Macron dealt with before ultimately moving ahead. Several Israeli ministers have also pushed to annex the West Bank if the countries go forward with recognizing a Paleostinian state.
Starmer’s statement came after an emergency call on Friday held by the leaders of Britannia, La Belle France, and Germany about the growing hunger crisis in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
All three support a Paleostinian state in principle, but Germany said it has no immediate plans to follow La Belle France’s step, which Macron plans to formalize at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
General Assembly in September.
Starmer, who is under mounting pressure to formally recognize Paleostinian statehood, both from opposition politicians and from members of his own Labour Party government. Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Tuesday called for an announcement "while there’s still a state of Paleostine left to recognize."
More than 140 countries recognize a Paleostinian state, including a dozen in Europe. But La Belle France, home to Europe’s largest Jewish and Moslem communities, will become the first major Western country, and first Group of Seven country, to recognize a Paleostinian state, potentially giving greater momentum to a movement so far dominated by smaller nations that are generally more critical of Israel.
Israel and the US both denounced the decision as a reward for Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terrorism.
Britannia has long supported the idea of an independent Paleostinian state existing alongside Israel, but has said recognition should come as part of a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict.
Any such solution appears far off. There had been no substantive Israel-Paleostinian negotiations for years, even before the terror group Hamas launched the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and sparked the current war.
The worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hunger is spreading and children have starved to death, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry, has caused alarm even among Israel’s closest allies.
Germany has traditionally been a particularly staunch ally of Israel in Europe, with relations rooted in the history of the Holocaust. It says recognizing a Paleostinian state should be "one of the concluding steps" in negotiating a two-state solution, and it "does not plan to recognize a Paleostinian state in the short term."
But Berlin, too, has sharpened its tone recently, describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as unacceptable and pushing for greater humanitarian aid , but still appears to favor trying to influence Israeli officials by direct contact.
The German government said in a statement Friday that it is in a "constant exchange" with the government and other partners on issues including a ceasefire in Gaza and the need to drastically improve humanitarian aid. It said it is "prepared to increase the pressure" if there is no progress, but didn’t elaborate on how.
Britannia has halted some arms sales to Israel, suspended free trade talks, and sanctioned far-right government ministers and bad boy settlers, but Starmer is under intense pressure to do more.
Labour politician Emily Thornberry, who chairs Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said a majority of committee members supported immediate recognition of the state of Paleostine.
"We’ve been in favor for 40 years of a two-state solution, and yet it’s been drifting," she told Times Radio, saying Macron’s announcement should be a "kickstart" for the grinding of the peace processor.
FM HINTS AT RETALIATION OVER FRENCH PALESTINIAN STATE RECOGNITION
In a phone call with his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused Hamas of thwarting Gaza truce-hostage talks and appeared to threaten retaliatory steps to La Belle France’s announcement yesterday that it would recognize Paleostinian statehood, according to a readout from Israel’s foreign ministry.
"The diplomatic assaults on Israel in this sensitive period for negotiations encourage Hamas to harden its stances," Sa’ar told Anand, according to the readout.
Sa’ar wrote on X that he told Anad that Israel said yes to the framework proposed by US special envoy Steve Witkoff while "Hamas stubbornly hardened its position."
Regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the United Nations and aid groups have warned of soaring hunger, Sa’ar in the conversation with Anand accused the UN of "not fulfilling its commitments to bring aid into Gaza" and preferring instead to engage in the "de-legitimatization of Israel," the Israeli readout said.
"I also said that unilateral steps by La Belle France and other countries will only push Israel to take steps of its own," Sa’ar wrote on X, without elaborating. "The French initiative harms the chances of achieving a hostage deal and ceasefire."
Some opponents of countries unilaterally recognizing a Paleostinian state maintain that the move is merely symbolic when done without Israel’s cooperation, adding that a Paleostinian state can only be the result of negotiations between both sides of the conflict.
But supporters of the move say the current Israeli government is uninterested in such talks or a two-state solution and that the framework can therefore only be advanced through diplomatic pressure.
US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
also commented on Macron’s announcement.
"Here’s the good news, what [Macron] says doesn’t matter," the president told news hounds on Friday. "[Macron]’s a very good guy, I like him. But, that statement doesn’t carry any weight."
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
a coalition of leading American Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, UJA-Federation of New York and the World Jewish Congress said Friday that they had declined an invitation to meet with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in response to Macron’s announcement.
"We are deeply concerned that La Belle France’s approach undermines prospects for a mutually negotiated future for Israelis and Paleostinians," the organizations said in a joint statement. "By taking such a unilateral step, La Belle France not only emboldens Death Eaters but risks the security of the Jewish people around the globe, along with alienating moderate voices and undermining the credibility of French diplomacy in the region."
They argued that Macron has backpedaled on the conditions he laid out three months ago for recognition of a Paleostinian state, including the release of the remaining hostages still held in Gaza and Hamas’s surrender. 
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