STATE OF PALESTINE RECOGNITION IS A LIE

Recognising the State of Palestine may seem, at first glance, like a moral turning point - a sign of western conscience reawakened amid the devastation of Gaza.

France took the lead, hosting an international conference with Saudi Arabia under the UN banner.

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer soon followed, pledging conditional recognition. His foreign secretary, David Lammy, spoke of Britain’s "special burden of responsibility" - a nod to the Balfour Declaration, which enabled Zionist colonisation of Palestine under British protection.

But peel back the optics, and this gesture is exposed for what it is: a facade, a diplomatic performance masking business as usual.

What’s being offered isn’t statehood. It’s a demilitarised, non-contiguous pseudo-entity with no control over borders, airspace, resources, or movement. It is a ghost administration under Israeli command, tasked with managing a shattered, occupied population. Less than the Oslo Accords and more like a glorified municipality dressed up as liberation.

And yet, Western leaders present it as bold, visionary. Why? Because this isn’t about Palestinian rights - it’s about political cover.

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France, under President Emmanuel Macron, sees the Palestinian cause as a diplomatic bridge back into the Arab and Muslim worlds, after its decline across Africa.

Macron postures as a new Charles de Gaulle, despite France’s legacy of aiding Israel’s nuclear ambitions.

Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, is leveraging the recognition initiative to justify normalisation with Israel. It offers the illusion of progress while pulling Arab and Muslim countries deeper into the Abraham Accords.

Starmer’s motives are more immediate. With rising public anger over his unwavering support for Israeli aggression - and a new left-wing challenge emerging from Jeremy Corbyn and Zahra Sultana leading a new political party - he’s using recognition as a diversion.

It is not a commitment, but a tactic. He’s offered it conditionally - as leverage to coax Israel back to the "peace process". If Israel cooperates, recognition is shelved. Palestinian statehood becomes a bargaining chip to be played - not a right to be affirmed.

It’s an absurd contradiction: if Starmer truly supported a two-state solution, recognising the second state would be the first logical step. But in the West, even symbolic gestures towards Palestine must pass through Tel Aviv.

And yet, even these hollow gestures have rattled Israel’s far-right coalition.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz scoffed that a Palestinian state should be built in Paris or London. US President Donald Trump threatened Canada with trade retaliation for considering recognition.

But that fury shouldn’t distract from the deeper truth: this initiative is a mirage, a tranquiliser for international conscience.

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