{"id":83820,"date":"2025-07-09T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=83820"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:16:06","slug":"recognition-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/09\/recognition-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition of Palestine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect Keir Starmer was not happy that President Macron of France <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O3tUpyyxUU0?si=_5TUOxYIDxGAPeYx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said this<\/a> to both Houses of Parliament yesterday, referring to Gaza:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we are attached to human lives, as we are attached to territorial and integrity, we want a ceasefire, no discussion.<\/p>\n<p>And today, working together, in order to recognise the state of Palestine and to initiate this political momentum is the only path to peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three things. First, Starmer clapped, but I do not take that as an indication of commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Second, does a two-state solution really make sense when what is Palestinian is not defined?<\/p>\n<p>Third, if recognition does, however, mean that Israel is engaged in an illegal war against Palestine and resulting measures are taken, including full economic sanctions as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for by Francesca Albane<\/a>se to the UN, then this might have some substance.<\/p>\n<p>But, I am probably living in forlorn hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect Keir Starmer was not happy that President Macron of France said this to both Houses of Parliament yesterday, referring to Gaza: As we<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/09\/recognition-of-palestine\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83834,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83820\/revisions\/83834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}