The UK Will Make Middle East Navigation Harder by Recognizing Palestine as a State

Originally published by American Greatness

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer thought he could avoid a public spat with President Trump during his two-day visit to the UK by postponing his government’s controversial decision to recognize Palestine as a state until after Trump left the country. Although Starmer avoided a confrontation with President Trump over this issue, the president expressed his strong disagreement with the prime minister at a press conference before he departed.

A total of 23 European states will have recognized Palestine as a state by the end of September. Most recognitions were before 2015. Five occurred last year: Armenia, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, and Spain. This month will see four more: Belgium, France, Italy, and the UK.

France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, and other European states also voted for a non-binding UN General Assembly resolution on September 12 that overwhelmingly passed and endorsed a two-state solution with a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital.

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