Highlighting Kiir Starmer’s recognition of Palestine Palestinian territories
I was confused about the conditions set by Kiir Starmer to Israel to meet with it, and its failure to get to know Palestine as a state (the United Kingdom to learn about the situation of Palestine in September unless Israel adheres to the ceasefire, July 29). Why is recognition dependent on Israel’s actions? It should be dependent on Palestine: obligations to abandon terrorism, disarm Hamas, democratic elections, and of course, to release the hostages.
As for Israel, the UK policy must be the imposition of Drakon sanctions: if Israel continues to act like a pariah, let it be treated as one. Without penalties, there is still a racist separation system in South Africa. The UK must behave now, not frankly in September; Thousands of children in Gaza cannot wait until then.
Doug Mugan
Dunblan, Perthhere
Like many people in the United Kingdom, I believed that despair and disgrace from the situation in Gaza cannot be deepened. Care Starmer achieved it. How did the Prime Minister like to overcome and kick any feeling of allergy to the long grass from the emergency.
One may think that Britain bears some special responsibility for recognizing the state of Palestine, whose population abandoned its neighbor’s points in 1948. What will remain in Gaza, the West Bank and its people by September? genocide? Diaspora? The United Kingdom is not negotiating with terrorists, only with war criminals.
honorary Professor Graham Mort
Lancaster University
Soon after the atrocities that occurred on October 7, 2023, I heard someone on the radio saying, regarding Israel’s imminent invasion of Gaza, “Beware of your enemy to do what your enemy wants to do.” Almost two years later, the Israeli government appears to be hell to create an ethical equation between it and Hamas.
If you become like your enemy, your enemy has won. Consequently, despite what it says about the recent moves to recognize a Palestinian state, the Israeli government is more than anything else, “rewarding” Hamas for its terrorist acts.
pastor Rob Kelissy
Peruyck Abon Todid, Nurutberland
It is impossible for us to know the depth of despair. Palestinians must feel hearing the western countries that explode that we will not get to know them as a nation if they stop killing them. This seems to be the final recognition that they do not have rights except for those we see they present to them. We expelled them from the land in which they lived to ensure that Europe did not suffer from the problem of resettling thousands of displaced people due to the European war.
They are attacked in Gaza and the West Bank with the weapons presented by Western governments. They are starving in Gaza to keep their chef in his position. Now our governments are being praised because of the abdication of it to recognize the fact that it is a nation (has been around for more than 1000 years). How can we believe that we have any integrity in our dealings with the oppressed?
Michael McLeglin
Wington, London
What will give a greater weight to call for a two -state solution that explains the basic building blocks to establish a Palestinian state: for example, Gaza will be placed under the United Nations control to allow the connection of the open, the physical reconstruction and the development of a basic law to direct the development of a constitutional situation.
Javin Ware
Cape Town, South Africa