2nd major EU country to announce this: Starmer says UK will recognize Palestinian state unless 'appalling situation in Gaza' ends

[Hystameme©]

After Macron's announcement less than a few weeks ago, the UK follows suit - conditionally.
Let's see how the stubborn party in the Middle East reacts.

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The situation in Gaza has drawn a wave of international criticism over Israel's conduct in the 21-month war, especially as images of emaciated Palestinian children in the territory emerged and hunger deaths began to circulate widely.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps toward long-term peace.

Starmer called ministers together for a rare summertime Cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza.

He told them that Britain will recognise a state of Palestine before the United Nations General Assembly, "unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, reaches a ceasefire, makes clear there will be no annexation in the West Bank, and commits to a long-term peace process that delivers a two state solution."

Starmer's announcement comes almost a week after President Emmanuel Macron said France would formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Macron shared a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an X post, alongside a statement which read: "The French people want peace in the Middle East. It is up to us, the French, together with the Israelis, the Palestinians, and our European and international partners, to demonstrate that it is possible."

France will become the first G7 country and the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to recognize Palestine, joining 147 member states of the United Nations that have already done so.

The act of recognition involves acknowledging the sovereignty and independence of Palestine within its pre-1967 Middle East war borders. This includes the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria and Romania are among the countries in Europe that already recognize Palestinian statehood.
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[Goldias]

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

I'm sure they will. They've tasted blood and now want the whole carcass.

[GoldenEldiablo]

I'm baffled that The Netherlands hasn't recognized Palestine yet. There is genocide taking place and our lack of recognition makes us indirectly complicit.

And that's not the only reason.

[Hystameme©]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

Well, about that:
>>>Exclusive: Cross-party EU lawmakers call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza ‘atrocities’

A group of 40 cross-party MEPs are pressing on the European Union to suspend its trade deal with Israel and impose sanctions on the Netanyahu-led government, as an UN-backed body warns of signs of famine and widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip.

In a joint statement seen exclusively by Euronews, the lawmakers call on the EU to hold the Israeli government accountable for actions that “blatantly breach the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law.”

The statement also urges Hamas to immediately release Israeli hostages still held captive in Gaza after they were kidnapped from Israel during October 7 2023 attacks.

“Future generations will judge today’s leaders on their response, or lack thereof, to the atrocities in Gaza. Failing to act now will be remembered as a moral stain on humanity,” the statement reads. “The time for moral cowardice is over, and action must be swift.”

The coalition of MEPs explicitly call for sanctions on the Israeli government, a move the EU has so far avoided despite allies including the United Kingdom and Norway moving to sanction two Israeli ministers considered extremist, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
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https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/29/exclusive-cross-party-eu-lawmakers-call-for-sanctions-on-israel-over-gaza-atrocities

[Rio ⛧]

Who cares, Starmer made uk internet as locked down as gaza internet.

This is just him trying to distract from the evil he just did.

Take a playbook from the usa and say "We found a flying saucer, aliens are real!" Works on american conservatives every time.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Interesring times, building a temple would be extra bonus

[Santa Klaus]

It's long past time and should happen anyway, the deliberate and systematic starving of 2 million civilians, on top of flagrant disregard for civilian lives and infrastructure and numerous cases of executions, machine gunning civilians under the white flag (including several of their own hostages), are all unacceptable. At this point I think most people can agree it's either a genocide or barely a whisker below it.

[Dutchgamer1982]

I stand with israel.
strongly.

we should end all aid to ukraine veto they never can join un or eu.

but I would welcome israel in nato and would want to help them fight ofl iran and those terrorists in gaza thar are their proxy.

palestine are terrorist.
they deseve what they getting
fake madia loves to frame them as victems.
palestines are the terrorists who raped and kidnapped 2000 israely citycens.. who still hold 50.. who still refuse to dismantle hamas aka the terrorist group resoinsible for this attack.

and even before that.. every day rockets rained on israel from gaza every day.. wold you accept that?
if say mexico would fire at least 3 rocketbombs at american citiies every day.. each day destruction each day deaths or injured..
slowly creeping up to 20 rockets a day
when you deciede enough and move in.. you find they build the launch instalations under hospitals use woman and children as shield
you tried warning them before attack but al they did was move in more woman and children.

so now you just blow up those rocletlaunchers wothout warning to minimimose causualties.

ofcourse those aholes will frame that at looo israel blows up hospitals.. damned if you do damned if you dont..

at least you contained them.. somwhat you thought.. 3 rockets a day.. when it get to bad move in to restarr that cycle..

ofcourse your people kept being blown up but well what else could you do they are bloody terrorists but the world including yourcallies somehow picks their side. morons..

than this attack organisrf 2000 citycens kidnapped many raped... and the civillian population in gaza.. celibrating the annimals celibrating over rape of 16yo girls.. murder of mothers and their blues ANUMALS.

it is clear containment not works. and that their entire populatiin is terrorist not one came forth poiting where the hostages are or whete the hamas leaders are.
it also is very clear that political hamas is the same as terrorust hamas despite earlier claims.
so now you want 2 objectives hamas completely destroyed each member captures the entire organisation dismantled.. + your hostages back.

that was and still is the objective.
the suffering palestinians show on tv.. dont buy into it.. they are terorist the war starter bacause them.. amd would have been over long ago if they just hand over hamas and the hostages.
its their stubbord backing or terrorists and hiding them and using their own people as a shield thats causinf thing

dont buy into their terrorist tricks.

israel is defending itself -with restraint-
palestinians are terrorists

I am ashamed for the palestinian flags some wave in my streets.. while mayoroty by muslims thar prove all the more they dont belong to live here..
there are sadly also many left/woke idiots buying in the palestinan cause.

know that thats not my entire nations voice.. that there are still those who stand with israel.. and do their best to havr their goverment not cave in to the idiots and foreignrs..

[Santa Klaus]

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

Interesring times, building a temple would be extra bonus

Please don't put ideas in MAGA evangelicals heads, they'd start calling for nukes to 'accelerate the return of Christ'.

[Dutchgamer1982]

Originally posted by Santa Klaus:

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

Interesring times, building a temple would be extra bonus

Please don't put ideas in MAGA evangelicals heads, they'd start calling for nukes to 'accelerate the return of Christ'.

magas are idiots.

that would not accelerate it..
christ comes back once the antichrist has been pursecuting for 36 months.. which happens after he imposed his mark of the beast without which you cannot buy sell employ or be employed
which happens after the last person on earth has heard the gospel..

so visting every uncontacted tribe and force your way into iran and north korea to spread the gospel there too

would be a much better way.

"preach the gospel upon all creation" has been the unchanged order #1 for over 2000 years..

[Goldias]

Originally posted by Hystameme©:

Originally posted by Goldias:

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

Well, about that:
>>>Exclusive: Cross-party EU lawmakers call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza ‘atrocities’

If 'sanction' is the best they can do, not much hope for palestinians.
From the looks of it they don't even need EU trade deals when they have US on their side.

[Hystameme©]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Originally posted by Hystameme©:

Well, about that:
>>>Exclusive: Cross-party EU lawmakers call for sanctions on Israel over Gaza ‘atrocities’

If 'sanction' is the best they can do, not much hope for palestinians.
From the looks of it they don't even need EU trade deals when they have US on their side.

I don't expect that much from them to be absolutely frank with you.
EU nations and people have been conditioned to look the other way whenever a certain group does something, no matter how bad it is.

A small step in the right direction is still better than what the US is doing at least.

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

Indeed, specially since the weaponization of famine is being accelerated...

[Rio ⛧]

Originally posted by Uncle Sam:

Originally posted by Goldias:

Not gonna do much good if no palestinians left to establish a country.
Guess Israel will step up their game.

Indeed, specially since the weaponization of famine is being accelerated...

If they'll do this to them, will they do it to christians? amercans? The homeless and poor? What, what are you doing trump, no do't carry me to the camps!

[salamander]

is he aware that gaza is in ruins and everyone is starving to death? too little too late.