Should UK Recognition of Palestine Be Conditional?

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00:00So the UK will recognise a Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees to a Gaza ceasefire.

00:08Do you support the UK's decision to do this?

00:11Well, it's good to be with you indeed.

00:13As a Palestinian, I certainly welcome this step.

00:15It's a huge step forward.

00:18It's a way of expressing also pity that the Palestinians have been over 100 years, over a century, awaiting such a move.

00:26Yet the conditionality that is associated with that promise of Starmer, this time not Balfour, is what worries me.

00:34Why would ever the Palestinian independence and self-integrity be associated with any condition whatsoever?

00:42So what happens if Israel allows the influx of sacks of flowers into Gaza or stop the war, as it were?

00:49Would that indicate that Britain can withdraw such a promise?

00:53I find that quite worrying in a way, but that does not in any way undermine the fact that this is a huge step forward and it is commendable,

01:04but yet to be associated with the result when September comes.