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9:56 22.09.2025 •
From left to right: Canadian Prime Minister Carney, British Prime Minister Starmer and Australian Prime Minister Albanese in front of the Palestinian flag.
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Britain, Canada and Australia confirmed on Sunday that they now formally recognize Palestinian statehood, piling pressure on Israel to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and putting three major American allies at odds with the Trump administration, ‘The New York Times’ writes.
The coordinated announcements came on the eve of the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. France and Portugal have also pledged to vote for recognition of Palestinian statehood at the U.N. this week, joining some 150 members of the body who have already done so.
The concerted action, across three continents, will deepen the diplomatic isolation of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. But so far, moves to recognize a Palestinian state have not curbed Israel’s military campaign against Hamas, which has killed tens of thousands of people in Gaza and left much of the enclave in ruins.
Nor are they likely to alter the situation on the ground. While recognition is a symbolic act of support for Palestinian self-determination, the prospect of a viable Palestinian state — on territory now occupied or blockaded by the Israeli military — is in many ways more elusive than it has been in decades.
“The hope for a two-state solution is fading, but we cannot let that light go out,” Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said in a video statement. “Today, to revive the hope of peace and a two-state solution, I state clearly as prime minister of this great country that the United Kingdom formally recognizes the State of Palestine.”
Canada and Australia confirmed their decisions in statements released just before Mr. Starmer’s.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada accused the Israeli government of “working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established.” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia said a two-state solution has “always been the only path to enduring peace and security for the Israeli and the Palestinian peoples.”
The flurry of announcements drew praise from Palestinian leaders and condemnation from Israel’s government.
“I have a clear message to those leaders who recognize a Palestinian state after the terrible massacre on Oct. 7: You are giving a huge reward to terrorism,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a video statement on Sunday. “And I have another message for you: It will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.”
The Palestinian Authority said its president, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed Mr. Starmer’s announcement as “an important and necessary step toward achieving a just and lasting peace.”
Britain’s latest action has further soured relations with Israel. Mr. Netanyahu warned that it might backfire on those who seek a Palestinian state, vowing that Israel would redouble its construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Ahead of his scheduled speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says at his weekly cabinet meeting that Israel will respond to calls to establish a Palestinian state at the conference of world leaders in the coming days, calling for a “fight” against the move, which he says would “endanger [Israel’s] existence,” ‘Times of Israel’ quotes.
“At the UN, I will present the truth. This is Israel’s truth, but it is also the objective truth in our just struggle against the forces of evil, and our vision for real peace — peace through strength,” Netanyahu says in his opening remarks, reminding cabinet ministers that he will meet with US President Donald Trump following his UN speech.
“We will also have to fight at the UN and in all other arenas against the false propaganda directed at us and the calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state — which would endanger our existence and constitute an absurd reward for terror,” he continues, repeating past remarks that nations recognizing a Palestinian state at the General Assembly are rewarding Hamas’s acts of terror against Israel.
“The international community will hear from us about this in the coming days,” the premier says.
…There are some notable details to this conflict.
First, the British and all countries close to the British dislike Israel. In the 1940s, Israelis militarily drove the British out of Palestine, which had previously been under British control for many decades.
Second, London and its close allies would benefit from provoking a new major Arab-Jewish war, even involving Pakistan, a country close to London, in order to distract their population from the rapidly declining standard of living. Pakistan just signed a military agreement with Saudi Arabia, offering it its “nuclear umbrella” as a Nuclear Power. Clearly, it's against Israel. As the saying goes, “war will write off everything...”
Third, the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, which the UN has already characterized as “genocide,” demands a response from the international community. However, even the UN Security Council has so far been unable to stop this total extermination of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip due to Washington's position, which supports the Netanyahu regime. That's why the Netanyahu government feels so confident.
Nevertheless, Israel now faces a new adversary in the form of leading Commonwealth countries. So, this paves the way for future blockades and sanctions.
There was the concept of “the entire civilized world,” which meant the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. And now this “entire world” has split…
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