What does it mean to know the Palestinian state?

Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer announced that the United Kingdom will get to know a Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets certain conditions, including the agreement to a ceasefire in Gaza and revive the possibility of a solution from the two countries.

The reaction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fiercely to this declaration, saying that the decision is equivalent to “brutal terrorism.”

What does this mean if it is not confessed, and what is the difference that will happen?

Palestine is a case that does not exist.

It has a great degree of international recognition, diplomatic missions abroad and the teams competing in sports competitions, including the Olympic Games.

But because of the long -term Palestinian conflict with Israel, it has no internationally agreed limits, no capital, no army. Because of Israel’s military occupation, in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority, which was established in the wake of peace agreements in the 1990s, does not fully control its lands or people. Gaza, where Israel is also the occupied force, in the midst of a devastating war.

Looking at his position as a kind of case, the recognition is somewhat symbolic. It will represent a strong moral and political statement, but it changes slightly on the ground.

But the symbolism is strong. Foreign Minister David Lami said during his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, “Britain holds a special burden of responsibility to support the two -state solution.”

He continued to be martyred in the Balfour Declaration in 1917 – signed by his predecessor as foreign minister Arthur Balfour – who first expressed his support for Britain “to establish a national house for the Jewish people in Palestine for the Jewish people.”

But this announcement, this announcement, said, with an official promise, “Not anything that might affect the civil and religious rights of non -Jewish societies in Palestine.”

Israeli supporters have often indicated that Lord Balfour has not explicitly referred to the Palestinians or say anything about their national rights.

But the region, which was previously known as Palestine, which ruled Britain by authorizing the Nations Association from 1922 to 1948, has long been considered incomplete international works.

Israel appeared in 1948, but the efforts made to create a parallel state of Palestine have fallen, for several reasons.

As Lami said, the politicians used to pronounce words “a solution from the two countries”.

The phrase refers to the establishment of a Palestinian state, along with Israel, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, widely on a large scale before the Arab -Israeli war in 1967.

But international efforts to achieve a two -state solution reached nothing and colonized Israel for large parts of the West Bank, illegal under international law, which turned the concept into a largely empty slogan.

The state of Palestine is currently being recognized by 147 UN member states 193.

At the United Nations, it has a “permanent observer state”, allowing participation but there is no voting rights.

With France also recognizing the coming weeks, assuming that the United Kingdom is communicating with recognition, Palestine will soon enjoy the support of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the other two are China and Russia).

This will leave the United States, the most powerful ally of Israel, in a minority of one.

Washington has realized the Palestinian Authority, which is currently headed by Mahmoud Abbas, since the mid -1990s, but has stopped recognizing the actual state.

Several American presidents expressed their support for construction in the end of a Palestinian state. But Donald Trump is not one of them. According to its administrations, the US policy bent strongly in favor of Israel.

Without supporting the closest and strongest Israeli ally, it is impossible to see a peace process that ultimately leads to a two -day solution.

Successive British governments talked about recognition of a Palestinian state, but only as part of the peace process, perfectly with other Western allies and “at the moment of the maximum influence.”

Do this simply as a gesture, as governments believe, will be a mistake. It may make people feel virtue, but it will not change anything on Earth.

But the events clearly forced the current government’s hand.

The scenes of creeping hunger in Gaza, anger at the military campaign of Israel and a major transformation in British public opinion – all of these affected government thinking.

The bustle, between deputies to the front cabinet seat, has deaf the ears.

In a discussion of the House of Commons last week, Lami was bombed by all parties through questions that ask why the United Kingdom did not recognize a Palestinian state.

The Minister of Health, Wes Starding, summarized the views of many deputies when he urged the government to recognize Palestine, “while there is still a state of Palestine that remains for recognition.”

But the United Kingdom did not simply follow the introduction by Emmanuel Macron from France last week or the governments of Ireland, Spain and Norway last year.

Sir Kerr chose to make his pledge as conditional: Britain will work unless the government of Israel takes decisive steps to end the suffering in Gaza, reach a ceasefire, and refrain from an area annexing in the West Bank – a symbolic threatening step by the Israeli parliament last week – and commitment to the peace process resulting from a state solution.

Deming Street knows that there is no opportunity to commit Netanyahu in the next six weeks of this type of peace. He has repeatedly excluded the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Even the British recognition of Palestine is definitely coming.

Despite all Netanyahu’s opposition, Sir Kiir hopes that this is already “a moment with a maximum effect.”

But Britain in 2025 is not Britain in 1917 when the Balfour Declaration was signed. Its ability to praise others to its will is limited. It is difficult to know, now, what will be the effect already.