Bibi Outraged Over UK's Potential Recognition of Palestine.

The UK has promised to recognise a Palestinian state. However, it comes with caviats. Hamas must release all remaining Israeli hostages. Secondly, Hamas must disarm and thirdly, must relinquish power in Gaza. If Hamas did all this, then at the next United Nations General Assembly gathering, in September, the UK would support a viable Palestinian state.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy spoke at the UN recently, saying all of the above. The carnage must end, and Lammy said it was the belief of His Majesty's government that the two-state solution remains the only viable solution. Mr. Lammy repeated the oft-spoken words that Israel must be the forever home of the Jews. Where they can live in peace and security. Palestine must exist alongside the Jewish state, where Palestinians can also live in peace and security.

Bibi Netanyahu has lashed out at the UK's announcement on Palestine. Accusing the UK of "appeasing" Hamas. Just like he did when Sir Keir Starmer's administration banned certain weapons from being sold to Israel.

On X, Netanyahu posted: "(UK PM Keir Starmer) has rewarded Hamas's monstrous terrorism and it punishes its victims". Mr. Netanyahu said Israel does not want a Jihadist state on its border. And that if this comes about, Britain would regret recognising Palestine, as eventually, it could threaten the UK. Netanyahu went on: "Appeasement towards Jihadist terrorists always fails. It will fail you (referring to the UK), too. It will not happen".

The US still backs Netanyahu, but reportedly Trump himself is exasperated with Bibi. At Trump and Starmer's recent meeting in Scotland, Trump and Starmer were on the same hymn sheet in their condemnation of Israel's actions in Gaza. However, Trump's team, together with Bibi's team, left negotiations with Hamas in Qatar. Trump said before flying to his golf course in Scotland (where he later met Sir Keir) that Hamas didn't want a deal. And they wanted "to die". He also said Hamas would be hunted down. The message from Trump seems somewhat confused. Either he wants to continue talking to Hamas, or he doesn't. He wants to end the war or not?

The UK says it still stands four square behind the Jewish state. Despite the banning of some arms sales to Israel. And the idea of recognising Palestine if they follow the steps outlined by Lammy and Starmer. Starmer backed Israel's right to defend itself after the heinous attacks of October 7 committed by Hamas. He even seemed to back Israel's right to lay siege to Gaza, with water, food, and electricity being turned off. The question is: has Starmer changed his mind on Palestine himself? Based on the horrendous suffering in Gaza perpetrated by the IDF? Or because he has been pressured by those in the Labour party, or both?

Netanyahu and his far-right thugs must be feeling pressure. Internally, many are demonstrating against the war; they want the war to end, the hostages home and the hideous acts committed by the IDF to stop. Many nations are turning against Israel. Horrified at what Israel is doing to Gaza, destroying everything that makes modern life possible. Killing thousands of civilians by bombing, using starvation as a weapon, and blocking things like baby milk powder. There is a mass famine in Gaza. Pictures have come out of malnourished skeletal babies, children, and adults. Where suffering Gazans have been shot and killed by the IDF as they queue for food. Doctors working in Gaza, both international and Gazan, tell horror stories. No journalists are allowed in, and as Piers Morgan said, "Let the international media in". So we can test the validity of Israel's denials of starvation. That everything that happens is Hamas' fault, allegedly.

Israel has certainly dealt Hamas deadly blows. Their leaders, both abroad and internally, have been assassinated or died in battle. Many of their tunnels have been destroyed, and their armoury is not what it was. Now that Israel controls the border between Gaza and Egypt, Hamas's weapons supply has dried up. Iran is in no position to support them, even if it wanted to. Hezbollah, though still in existence, has stopped lobbing rockets and drones into Israel. Israel knocked Hezbollah out of the fight. Hezbollah's supply of arms has dried up after the Assad regime fell. Many of their fighters and leaders, as with Hamas, have perished.

Yet for all of Israel's brutal attacks on Gaza, this war is costing the Israeli state a pretty penny. Netanyahu is reluctant to stop the war because he will face charges of corruption at home. He may be put on trial as a war criminal in the International Criminal Court. Hamas has lost thousands of fighters. Yet it is reckoned to have tens of thousands of new recruits. Hamas, for all its weaknesses and losses, has killed hundreds of IDF soldiers and officers. Israeli equipment has been destroyed by Hamas. Hamas uses what it has, even using Israeli weapons against the IDF. Hamas uses the devastated landscape of Gaza to make hit-and-run attacks on the IDF. Despite some hostages being released, many remain in Gaza alive or dead. So, has Israel failed to defeat Hamas and get the surviving hostages home? In this task outlined by Bibi himself, the stated goal of defeating Hamas and getting all of the hostages has been a major failure and catastrophe. Israel, for all its military might, seems to be losing.

Many IDF operatives are refusing to serve, which is another headache for Netanyahu.

It's time for proper negotiations to end this war, for prisoners and hostages on both sides to be released. Not just 60-day ceasefires that either side can break, but lasting peace. The Palestinian people and the Israeli people deserve better. Not extremist and fascist governments that don't give a monkey's about their people.

Therefore, realistically speaking, as outdated as it may seem to many, the two-state solution remains the answer. Or, as has been suggested before, one state for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

How this all comes about, however, as much as one might want peace, remains one of the most difficult international undertakings ever.

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