{"id":104528,"date":"2025-07-30T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104528\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:11:09","slug":"us-warns-starmer-palestinian-statehood-rewards-hamas-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104528\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns Starmer Palestinian statehood \u2018rewards Hamas\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce said the measure \u201cgives one group hope\u201d and incentivizes bad actors to not cooperate with diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any other normal environment where someone was so utterly defeated, they would surrender. In this case, that just does not occur,\u201d said Bruce. <\/p>\n<p>Bruce added that Hamas relied on \u201cthe hope that they receive on how long the suffering lasts, how much that pushes the world to acquiesce to their arguments.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Calls for recognition in the U.K. grew across the political divide after images surfaced of the scale of starvation in Gaza. Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-uk-keir-starmer-palestinian-statehood-war-in-gaza-hamas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told his Cabinet Tuesday<\/a> \u201cnow was the right time to move this position forward\u201d due to the diminishing prospects of a peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the U.K.\u2019s move would embolden Hamas and place it at risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[U.K. PM Keir] Starmer rewards Hamas\u2019s monstrous terrorism &amp; punishes its victims,\u201d Netanyahu said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce said the measure \u201cgives one group hope\u201d and incentivizes bad actors to not cooperate with diplomatic channels.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,25819,60436,115,7838,69,746,99,17723,50,125,6313,12279,5343,376,67,60441],"class_list":{"0":"post-104528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-british-politics","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-diplomacy","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-keir-starmer","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-rights","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-spectrum","21":"tag-terrorism","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941649542836111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}