Things seem to have moved after the Cabinet meeting this morning, but there are some pretty big caveats:
[The announcement] will stipulate the need for the release of all the hostages still held by Hamas and be based on a guarantee the terror group no longer rules Gaza, sources say.
Also made me wonder how Starmer’s conversation with Trump went yesterday. Not good?
What will probably happen: Israel will make a token gesture in the direction of relieving the famine, which will be insufficient or involve the killing of Palestinians by other means, and the UK will defer its recognition of Palestine “to evaluate the effects” of the new intervention. Rinse and repeat.
Yup this is what I thought. Shows that Starmer is doing “something” but it’s just weasel words.
Israel will just cry “anti-semitism” and continue to do what they are doing. They don’t even need a token gesture to continue being supported by most of the Western states.