David Cameron Says UK Government Will Consider Recognising Palestinian State

Published on January 30, 2024

Foreign Secretary David Cameron says the government is considering giving recognition to a Palestinian state. In recent weeks, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted his country needs to have control of security between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, therefore ruling out the possibility of a sovereign Palestinian state in the Gaza strip and the West Bank. Britain and the United States have been putting pressure on Israel to maintain a two-state solution, based on the principles of the Oslo accords which were signed in 1993. On Monday evening, Lord Cameron—who was prime minister from 2010 to 2016—told a reception of Arab ambassadors in London that if Britain recognised Palestine it might help create an “irreversible” process....

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