Why some Palestinians aren’t convinced by Starmer’s promise

Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper – After France and then after Canada, the United Nations General Assembly plans to identify a Palestinian kingdom, which plans to identify a Palestinian kingdom at the United Nations General Assembly in September, to change the two -state solution into a real diplomatic plan again, which has been made up of the Oslo peace process after 25 years ago.

One day driving around the West Bank reminds a salute of how to stop the facts created by Israel that it is dedicated to the rocky hills and the Palestinians are included in the valleys for a state.

A few days after capturing the region in the Middle East War of 1967, the success of the huge national project starting by Israel can be seen in Jewish settlements that now there are more than 700,000 Israel houses.

Getting them is a project that has been condemned by about 60 years, billions of dollars and friends as well as enemies. It is a violation of international law for an officer that he was settled on the land that he has settled on the land.

Last year, the International Court of Justice issued an advice stating that the entire business was illegal.

But Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is hungry for more settlements.

In late May, Defense Minister Israel Katj and Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich announced that 22 new settlements would be constructed in the West Bank.

Katz stated that large -scale expansion, the largest in decades, was making a “strategic step that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian kingdom that would endanger Israel and act as a buffer against our enemies”.

“This is a zioni, security and national reaction – and a clear decision on the future of the country,” he said.

Next to Katz was an ultra-nationalist leader Bezelle Smotrich, who lives in a settlement in the West Bank and believes that the Jews were given to the Jews by the Lord. He is the Finance Minister, but effectively is the Governor of the West Bank, who has comprehensive powers on the plan.

Smotrich called the disposal expansion “once a generation decision” and declared: “Next step sovereignty!”

Everyone in Israel, and Palestinians in the regions know that when Smotrich and their colleagues say “sovereignty”, they mean anxation.

Smotrich wants all land for Jews and has openly discussed ways to remove Palestinians.

The hilltop at the West Bank has settlements at various stages of its development on the hilltop, from the well-established small towns with mature gardens and schools, with a militant population of handful of caravan and young settlers, often mixing religion with extreme Jewish nationalism, firearm and sometimes fatal aggression.

The data collected by the United Nations and peace preachers suggest that violent settlers have increased attacks on their Palestinian neighbors since the October 7 attacks.

I went to see how a completely Christian village of about 1,500 people has affected Taybay.

It is a quiet place with many more houses compared to residents. After about six harsh decades of Israeli occupation, more people have been forced to live in the village so far.

Two nights before the journey, the settlers entered the village when most people were in bed. He burnt Kamal Taiya’s car and tried unsuccessfully to go to his new house, with a pleasant development part of which looking at the acre of olive groves. He sprinkled the walls with red with graffiti in Hebrew with red.

Kamal, a middle -aged person assured whether his decision to take his family to the banks of the village was intelligent, establishing a network of security cameras.

“We were very, very scared,” said Kamal. “I have children and have an old mummy. Our life was in danger, and it was terrible.”

I asked him if Britain’s plan to recognize Palestine would make his life easier.

“I don’t think so. It is a big step for a superpower like Britain, but on the ground, it does not change much. Israel does not suit any international resolution or laws.

“It does not listen to any other country in the whole world.”

During the next night, Jews settled on neighboring Palestinian communities, burnt cars and sprayed graffiti. This is just more than barbarity.

Settlers want Palestinians to be excluded and some places in occupied areas, succeeded, forced Palestinians to get out of their fields in remote villages and steal their livestock.

The Greek Orthodox priest, 74 -year -old David Khauri was born in Tabheh. In his church, he told me that the settlers have threatened him and other residents are often armed.

“Yes, they have guns … if we argue with them they will use them. They want us out, they want us to leave us.”

The old priest was convicted.

“We are here, since Jesus Christ, 2,000 years. Our roots are here. We cannot move. We will not move forward, even if we will die here, we will not go from here … Palestine is inside our blood, how can we live without our blood?”

It was not several miles away from the actual Palestinian capital Ramallah of the West Bank, but I was not able to go there personally. Israel’s posts can slow down Jerusalem and barely back, so I reached Hussam Zomlot through Zoom. He is the head of the Palestinian delegation of the United Kingdom, effectively his ambassador to London. He was back home for summer and was pleased with Britain’s plan to identify Palestine.

“This is a sign that the UK and with it, the rest of the international communities are actually serious about the two-state solution. We are no longer in the business of lip service that have lost us for three decades. In fact, if you actually look for two states, recognize two states.”

“We see recognition as an initial gun for a sprint to implement and establish the state of Palestine and fulfill the valid rights of Palestinians.”

Zomlot was jubilant. It was, he said, a first step, and the UK’s decision would make the real difference.

History is one of the powerful drivers of this struggle. He said that Britain said it was at the end for the mistakes when it was done to Palestinians when it was the royal power here between 1917 and 1948.

He was referring to the promises made in a small, typed letter, on 2 November 1917, signed by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfor and addressed Lord Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community of Britain. It was, the letter stated, “Jewish declare sympathy with zeoni aspirations”.

Britain “will see a national house in favor of installation in Palestine for Jewish people”.

This was followed by another promise: “Nothing will be done that may prejudicate citizens and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”

That majority, Palestinian Arabs meant, although he did not name him, a point that, still, still ranks Zomlot

At the United Nations in New York this week, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lami said that it could be proud to help Britain laid the foundation of Israel after 1917. But breaking the promise from the Palestinians in the Balfor declaration, he said, “caused a historical uncertainty that continues”.

In the cassette, the Parliament of Israel, Simcha Rothman, an over-nationalist MP of the National Religious Party also had a royal past of Britain in the Middle East. The British and French had tried to fix the borders first, said, when they took the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire, who died during World War I, the Middle East. Britain can no longer play royal power.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezellal Smotrich, his party leader, Rothaman said that the plan to recognize Palestine rewarded Hamas terrorism. He rejected the offer of the stormer to postpone the recognition, if Israel, along with other conditions, agreed to a complete ceasefire in Gaza and a revival of a two-state solution.

“He is threatening the state of Israel with punishment and thinks that there is a way to bring peace in the Middle East. He is not in a position to punish us, and it will definitely not bring peace.”

“And it is against justice, history, religion, culture … he is giving a big reward for Yahya Sinavar [the Hamas leader who led the 7 October attacks and was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year],

“He is still in hell today, he sees what the ker stormer says – and says, ‘Good companion’.”

Back to Tybeh, I asked a group of major local citizens who were drinking coffee with the mayor in their office, what did they think about the UK’s recognition plan.

One of them, one local businessman, said: “Thank you Britain. But it’s too late.”

BBC industry The best analysis is home on the website and app, with the latest approach that challenges beliefs and deep reporting on the biggest issues of the day. And we also demonstrate thought-respective materials from BBC sounds and iPlayer. You can send us your feedback on Inspth Section by clicking on the button below.