Britain’s PM Kid Starver is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging
declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences
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By Jonathan Cook: The
reluctant recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France,
Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait
that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three
decades now.
Imagine that these four leading western countries
had recognised Palestine not in late 2025, when Palestine is in the
final stages of being eradicated, but in the late 1990s, during a period
of supposed Palestinian state-building.
That was when the Oslo accords
were signed with western backing. The Palestinian Authority was
established under Yasser Arafat with the apparent aim that Israel would
gradually withdraw from the territories it still occupies in Gaza, the
West Bank and East Jerusalem and begin ruling an emergent Palestinian
state.