{"id":158130,"date":"2025-06-04T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158130\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:08:09","slug":"france-uk-to-recognise-palestine-at-upcoming-un-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158130\/","title":{"rendered":"France, UK to Recognise Palestine at Upcoming UN Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabat \u2013\u00a0 The United States has reportedly issued<\/a> private warnings to the United Kingdom and France, urging them not to move forward with unilaterally recognizing the Palestinian state at an upcoming UN summit, according to an exclusive by Middle East Eye.<\/p>\n

The conference, which will be co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia, is set to take place from June 17\u201320 in New York and will focus on efforts to revive the long-stalled two-state solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

France is reportedly planning to declare recognition of Palestinian statehood at the summit and has been actively encouraging the UK to do the same \u2014 an initiative that British officials appear increasingly open to, according to French reports.<\/p>\n

Characterized by media sources as a \u201cpoint of no return\u201d for the two-state framework, the summit is expected to culminate in a binding roadmap, with concrete timelines for Palestinian statehood and potential punitive measures for those who obstruct its implementation.<\/p>\n

Officials within the British Foreign Office told MEE that the US has conveyed its opposition to this potential move, cautioning both nations against formal recognition and pushing them to step back from any such commitments \u2014 warnings delivered in spite of growing pressure from Arab governments and various global stakeholders calling for decisive recognition of Palestinian sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, insisted that Washington lacks any valid justification to intervene in a decision that lies within the sovereign rights of the UK and France. He maintained that recognizing Palestine would affirm its legitimate claim to nationhood and elevate it to equal standing in any future peace process.<\/p>\n

During preliminary consultations at the United Nations and at a June 1 meeting in Amman, Arab foreign ministers made clear that the success of the upcoming summit would hinge on formal recognition by influential global powers.<\/p>\n

A number of Arab officials condemned<\/a> Israel\u2019s decision to block the high-level delegation \u2014 including representatives from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar \u2014 from meeting with Palestinian leadership in Ramallah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The delegation described Israel\u2019s obstruction as a \u201cblatant violation\u201d that illustrates \u201cthe arrogance of the Israeli government\u201d and its continued \u201cdisregard for international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

This incident followed Israeli gunfire directed<\/a> at Arab diplomats in the West Bank just days earlier, with Israel labelling the delegation\u2019s presence as \u201cprovocative\u201d and accusing the Palestinian Authority of failing to denounce the events of October 7 \u2014 while simultaneously amplifying its narrative of victimhood nearly two years into its live-streamed campaign of genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Such a state would undoubtedly become<\/a> a terrorist entity in the heart of the Land of Israel,\u201d claimed an Israeli official, declaring that Israel would refuse to cooperate with what it sees as a threat to its existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Should France and the UK proceed, they would become the first G7 members to officially recognize Palestine \u2014 a move that would significantly alter Israel\u2019s global diplomatic posture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s threats\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Israel has already warned<\/a> of serious consequences, with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer threatening annexation of parts of the West Bank in response.<\/p>\n

In line with these threats, the Israeli government recently authorized the creation of 22 new illegal settlements in the West Bank, claiming the move was designed to \u201cstrengthen our hold on Judea and Samaria\u201d\u2014 a euphemism that attempts to repackage ethnic cleansing and land theft as strategic sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, Israeli has revived its highly contentious E1 settlement plan \u2014 long denounced for undermining the territorial contiguity of a Palestinian state. The project risks severing East Jerusalem from the West Bank and severing the territory itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier in May, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich confirmed the government\u2019s intent to approve the construction of 3,412 housing units in the E1 zone in the coming months.<\/p>\n

The reactivation of the E1 plan has reignited debate in the UK about recognising Palestine, particularly given that Britain had signalled as far back as 2014 that it might do so if Israel advanced the E1 project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Frustration continues to mount in Britain and across Europe, as Israel\u2019s aggressive expansion of settlements \u2014 and its blatant defiance of international law \u2014 shatter any remaining illusions of a genuine two-state outcome.<\/p>\n

While framed as a peaceful and just breakthrough, the two-state solution is also widely controversial as it legitimizes Israel\u2019s occupation and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948. This framework offers a fragmented and non-sovereign state in only 22% of historic Palestine, and denies millions of refugees their right to return \u2013 falsely presenting Israel and Palestine as equal negotiating partners, despite the vast power imbalance and ongoing military occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabat \u2013\u00a0 The United States has reportedly issued private warnings to the United Kingdom and France, urging them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,66949,393,36,66950,4884,66951,1144,13579,66952,712,56244,16,15,8406,49,1764,13131],"class_list":{"0":"post-158130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-east-jerusalem","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-gaza-genocie","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-historical-palestine","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-palestinian-state","18":"tag-palestinian-territories","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-two-state-solution","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-nations","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-wales","26":"tag-west-bank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626435786842837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}