David Cameron announces that the United Kingdom is considering recognition of the Palestinian State

The Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, is convinced that the only way to promote peace in the Middle East is to offer a political horizon to the Palestinians.

To that end, the British Government would be willing to accelerate the recognition of a future State of Palestine.

It is necessary that the path towards the two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) acquires “irreversible progress,” Cameron said in London to a group of ambassadors from Arab nations gathered in the Middle East Council of the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party.

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“In this way, we – together with our allies – will analyze the issue of recognition of the Palestinian State, within the framework of the United Nations.

This may be one of the measures that helps make this process [the achievement of peace] irreversible,” the minister assured.

Rishi Sunak's Executive, like many other European governments and the US Administration, has never abandoned the historic two-state solution that gave birth to the Oslo peace agreements, but its firmness in supporting Benjamin Netanyahu's military response to Hamas, after the massacre of October 7, had put this solution at a very remote level from the discussion, to the point that its mere formulation sounded more like an obligatory tagline than a desired strategy.

The situation has changed drastically.

The United Kingdom has joined the effort promoted by Washington to bring peace to the region and stop the desperate situation of the population of Gaza, besieged by Israeli troops.

The Sunak Government has put on the table a five-point negotiation proposal to end the conflict, which includes the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian administration that would manage both the West Bank and Gaza;

Hamas's release of all Israeli hostages;

the guarantee that this Islamist militia will cease its future attacks against Israeli territory and the transfer of the main leaders of this organization in the Gaza Strip to a third country.

Cameron has once again demanded that the Netanyahu Government pause its attacks on Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Strip.

The minister's record

It is unthinkable that Cameron's words were not coordinated with his boss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The idea of ​​raising the possibility of recognition of a Palestinian State, firmly rejected by Netanyahu and his most radical government allies, may not be new, but pronounced by Cameron, before a group of Arab ambassadors and in the current context, it gains strength. unusual, to the point of almost representing a shift in Downing Street policy regarding the conflict in the Middle East.

However, the politician in charge of transmitting the news carries a trace of mistrust among the Palestinians.

On June 28, 2010, just beginning his term as Prime Minister, Cameron defined the Gaza Strip in the House of Commons as a “giant open prison.”

A month later, during an official visit to Turkey, he insisted that the international community “must not allow it to remain a prison camp,” and condemned as “completely unacceptable” the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla in the Mediterranean.

Nine activists and a journalist died when the Israeli Navy boarded the six boats, which were transporting humanitarian aid.

However, during the years of the Cameron Government, his support for Netanyahu increased, to the point that his pro-Israel stance surpassed those of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair, already very intense.

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