Palestine recognition is merely posturing

IT has to be the definition of hypocrisy to make a pledge you know can never happen.

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It is just a ploy to maintain the status quo. The UK's recognition of Palestine, whilst not acting against the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, is the pinnacle of forked-tongue posturing.

It’s nothing new. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration declared its commitment to the Palestinian homeland at the same time as supporting the establishment of the Zionist State.

The recognition of Palestine by the UK Government was promised more than 100 years ago, and repeated in the international accord, signed by Israel in 1995, for Israel to hand back occupied territories to Palestine. Instead, additional settlements have been created across Palestine’s West Bank ever since, including hundreds in the last two years alone, supported by the UK.