British Foreign Secretary David Cameron believes that the only way to promote peace in the Middle East is to offer the Palestinians a political horizon. To achieve this goal, the British Government is willing to accelerate the recognition of the future State of Palestine. The path to a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) needs to achieve “irreversible progress”, Cameron told a group of Arab ambassadors in London…

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron believes that the only way to promote peace in the Middle East is to offer the Palestinians a political horizon. To achieve this goal, the British Government is willing to accelerate the recognition of the future State of Palestine. The path to a two-state solution (Israel and Palestine) must achieve “irreversible progress,” Cameron said in London to a group of ambassadors from Arab countries gathered at the Middle East Council of the Conservative Party’s parliamentary group.

“In this way, we – together with our allies – will analyze the issue of recognizing the State of Palestine, within the framework of the UN. This may be one of the steps that helps carry out this process. [la consecución de la paz] cannot be changed,” the minister assured.

Rishi Sunak’s executive, like many other European governments and the US administration, has never abandoned the historic two-state solution that gave birth to the Oslo peace accords, but his steadfastness in supporting Benjamin Netanyahu’s military response to Hamas, following the October 7 massacre, has placed this solution at a very high level. away from discussion, to the point where the formulation sounds more like a mandatory tagline than a desired strategy.

The situation has changed drastically. Britain has joined efforts promoted by Washington to bring peace to the region and end the desperate situation of Gaza’s residents, who are besieged by Israeli forces. Sunak’s government has put forward a five-point negotiation proposal to end the conflict, which includes the creation of a Palestinian technocratic government that would administer the West Bank and Gaza; the release of all Israeli hostages by Hamas; a guarantee that this Islamic militia will stop its future attacks on Israeli territory and the transfer of the main leaders of this organization in the Gaza Strip to a third country.

Cameron once again demanded that the Netanyahu Government stop its attacks on Gaza so that humanitarian aid can enter the Gaza Strip.

Minister’s note

It is unthinkable that Cameron’s words were not coordinated with his boss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The idea of ​​increasing the possibility of recognition of the State of Palestine, which Netanyahu and his government’s most radical allies have categorically rejected, may not be new, but it was floated by Cameron, in the presence of a group of Arab ambassadors and in the current context, it is gaining ground. such an unusual force, that it almost represents a shift in Downing Street’s policy regarding the conflict in the Middle East.

However, the politicians tasked with spreading the news brought some distrust among Palestinians. On June 28, 2010, fresh from formalizing his mandate as prime minister, Cameron defined the Gaza Strip in the House of Commons as “a giant open-air prison.” A month later, during an official visit to Turkey, he stressed that the international community “must not allow it to remain a prison camp,” and condemned Israel’s attacks on the Gaza flotilla in the Mediterranean as “completely unacceptable.” Nine activists and a journalist were killed when the Israeli Navy boarded six ships carrying humanitarian aid. However, during the years of the Cameron Government, his support for Netanyahu increased, to the point that his pro-Israel stance surpassed that of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair, who were already very strong.

Follow all international information on Facebook And Xor in our weekly newsletter.