A bold statement requires bold action

FINALLY recognising Palestine is a debt of honour long overdue that will not create a state unless we back words with actions.

- KEVIN MAGUIRE

Keir Starmer deserves credit for doing what previous Prime Ministers dodged.

But it will be largely symbolic and not change the position on the ground without Britain joining allies to pressure the most reactionary, extremist settler regime in Israel's history.

Because warlord Benjamin Netanyahu’s Palestinian-killing, cobbled-together government is not only at war with Hamas terrorists and avenging the murderous horrific pogrom of October two years ago.

Netanyahu’ authority seems determined never to accept a free Palestine between the river and the sea, seemingly determined to ethnically cleanse Gaza and colonise occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.