Stepping up before meetings kick off in New York would allow Downing Street to gain extra credit with Labour MPs and party members, who lean toward supporting the Palestinian cause, while maintaining solidarity with the other nations expected to make a commitment at the France-led summit.<\/p>\n
Emily Thornberry, the Labour MP who chairs the Commons foreign affairs committee, said: \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting 15 years for this \u2026 I\u2019m really happy that it\u2019s going to finally happen, and it doesn\u2019t really matter what day it is.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Richard Gowan, U.N. director at Crisis Group, said making a collective move would have the advantage of \u201csafety in numbers\u201d since \u201cit reduces the\u00a0risk that the U.S. will single anyone out for retribution from the U.S.,\u201d adding, \u201cI am not sure the U.K. wins or loses very much reputationally depending on the exact order.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The question of recognition was a clear point of difference between Starmer and Trump during an otherwise harmonious state visit, with Trump specifying at their joint press conference that it was \u201cone of our few disagreements.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he did not go on the attack \u2014 and even patted Starmer on the back as the British PM condemned Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n
Preparations are underway to mark the occasion on Monday, with Head of Palestinian Mission to the U.K. Husam Zumlot due to oversee a flag-raising ceremony in London, said a person with knowledge of the preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stepping up before meetings kick off in New York would allow Downing Street to gain extra credit with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60436,69,99,373,31815,17723,3097,50,4851,376,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-237344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-hamas-war","12":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-middle-east","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-palestine","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115227545078565844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237344","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=237344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}