Now Keir Starmer has gone and done it: he’s broken with decades of his country’s foreign policy and, in synchronicity with two other appalling leaders, Mark Carney of Canada and Anthony Albanese of Australia, who have made the same announcement at the same time, has announced his country’s recognition of a “state of Palestine.” Starmer hasn’t offered any hint as to the borders of this new state, nor explained why he thinks the 3,500-year history of the Jews in Judea and Samaria (which is where most of that new state would be located) should be ignored, or why he thinks he can simply forget about the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine, that in 1922 assigned all the territory “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea” to be included in the area subject to the Palestinian Mandate, which would in time become the Jewish state of Israel. Nor has he shown any awareness of UN Security Council Resolution 242 — written largely by the British representative to the U.N. Lord Caradon — which allowed Israel to retain territory it won in the Six-Day War that it deemed necessary to hold onto if it was to have “secure and recognized borders.”
Nor has Keir Starmer said anything about what would happen, in this “state of Palestine,” to the 500,000 Israelis who have been living in Judea and Samaria for decades, or to the 200,000 Israelis now living in east Jerusalem, all three areas having been claimed by the most “moderate” of Palestinians to become part of their state. The non-moderates, of course, lay claim to all of the land “from the river to the sea,” by which they mean the disappearance of Israel, the expulsion or killing of all of its Jewish inhabitants, and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state.
Jake Wallis Simons casts a cold eye on Keir Starmer’s betrayal of an ally here: “Starmer’s shame,” Jake Wallis Simons, September 21, 2025:
…Polling published yesterday revealed that 90 per cent of Britons thought it a bad idea, and for once the majority view is the right one. For evidence of this, one need look no further than Hamas, which has responded with unbridled glee and has wholeheartedly congratulated Starmer.
As I wrote in my Sunday Telegraph column today, a special kind of blindness is required to pretend that the Palestinians are the good guys. To take just one example: shortly before October 7, Mahmoud Abbas, the supposed “moderate” leader currently enjoying the 21st year of his four-year term, said in a speech:
“They say that Hitler killed the Jews for being Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. No. It was clearly explained that they fought them because of their social role and not their religion.” And what was that role? “Usury, money and so on,” he said.
This is the man who was welcomed so warmly to Downing Street last week, while the Israeli prime minister would face arrest were he to set foot on these shores….
No demand was placed on Hamas in return for a Palestinian state. Not the release of the hostages; not the disavowal of terror; not surrender; not disarmament. No demand, for that matter was placed upon Mahmoud Abbas, who would have benefited from encouragement to refrain from spreading Nazi-style antisemitism to an impressionable and fractious Palestinian population, and to refrain of paying financial rewards to anybody convicted of terrorism.
It could not be clearer. Britain is now on the side of Hamas. Starmer may belatedly tack on sanctions targeted at the terror group, but that fools nobody; in fact, the most revealing sentence of the Telegraph’s story reporting it was, “the preparation of fresh sanctions is especially significant as it will represent the first concrete action taken by the Labour government against Hamas”….
So we return to the point that I have been making since the very beginning of the war. If only the international community had consistently backed the democracy under attack rather than the jihadis who attacked it, the hostages would be home and the war would have been over long ago.
This is Britain’s most shameful hour since before World War II, rivaling in its immorality and stupidity Chamberlain’s betrayal of Czechoslovakia when Great Britain agreed to let Hitler seize the Sudetenland in 1938.
Fortunately, the Israelis have a powerful military and cannot be pushed around. And they will treat Starmer’s “recognition of a state of Palestine,” and all the similar recognitions of “Palestine” now being declared by Macron, Carney, Albanese, Sanchez and the other leaders in that deplorable galère, with the contempt they deserve. The dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
kevin kraemer says
When are these thick headed brain dead idiots realize there never has nor will ever be a state of palestine?
OLD GUY says
When the MONEY stops flowing in from Islam or they are dead.
Edmund Carey says
Doing this has of course long been Labour Party policy. It’s not exactly surprising. But how it can be seen as helping anything at all is hard to figure.
The Palestinians, who have scuttled negotiation after negotiation when they don’t get exactly what they want, will simply become even more adamant in that same direction, and when Israel refuses to agree to its own evisceration with a “right of return” for 5,000,000 “refugees” (most of whom were born in other countries and have never set foot in Palestine) the negotiations will be scuttled again.
Heads of state are supposed to be intelligent. Their not being able to see this is about as intelligent as failing a grade three math test.
To which anyone possessed of an ounce of common human decency will add, that to be recognizing Palestine now, in the wake of the massacre of October 7th, and because that massacre happened, is despicable to the point of making Pearl Harbor look like a high point in the history of international diplomacy.
Shame on Keir Starmer and his government. I hope he loses his job.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
You write about “a “right of return” for 5,000,000 “refugees” (most of whom were born in other countries and have never set foot in Palestine)”
Not “most” were born outside “Palestine,” but 99.5% were born outside of “Palestine.”
Derek says
Why is this surprising at all. The labor party has done this to secure the Muslim vote bank. It is the consistent policy of all western governments for more than a century that Islamic Jihad has to be managed and not to be fought.
The result would of course be a disaster for the society – but who cares – as the decision has the potential of keeping the present government in power.
scott evans says
i am ashamed of my country Britain for doing this forgive me, a christian zionist i will stand for israel no matter what, i have a huge israeli flag hanging outside my home with 2 star of david tattoos i always defend israel wherever i go , i will not hide my support for israel
carpediadem says
Very nice of you indeed and well said.
Stang says
I’m in Canada and the propaganda being pumped out against Israel and Jews on social media seems to increase daily.
Those controlling the algorithm on social media are as guilty as the members of Carneys corrupt far left liberal government in pushing this dangerous talk.
Like Briton it’s a good thing most Canadians are awake to the turn coat Carney and his self serving treacherous ideas.
Now to get ride of them
Big Dude says
A fitfing next chapter would be the islamization of all of perfodious albion
It will be interesting to watch
Eddie says
“Britains most shameful hour since before World War Two”
Yes Mr Fizgerald and as you say 90% of British polled opposed this.
And so did 70% of the French oppose the same thing there.
Thus we see the fall of leading powers in Europe to Islam and the open support of terrorism.
Israel will now I hope close their Embassies in the UK and France.
Israel must regard both as enemies.
Well the ordinary people in France are now openly rioting against their Government and even in the Netherlands crowds are pushing back against the police annd chasing away them away from protests.
Britain is slowly coming to the boil.
It is hard for us to break the law, we are conditioned to obey rules but folk are seeing that they must fight or go under.
We cannot take much more insult to everything we have ever known and the attacks on women and children day by day.
And we tire of being shamed in the eyes of the world by our traitorous Government.
James Lincoln says
Eddie says,
“Israel will now I hope close their Embassies in the UK and France.
Israel must regard both as enemies.”
Yes.
Tragic beyond tragic.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Fully agree w/ you. Or Israel could return the favor and recognize Wales & Quebec as separate countries, and offer them embassies in Jerusalem. Not sure whether any part of Australia was in the crosshairs of a secessionist campaign, or I’d have included them as well. Tasmania maybe?
carpediadem says
About 74% of Aussies oppose this vile recognition.
abu taleb says
I guess, Hittler and the Nazis had not done any attack to Britain before the WW2, while the jihadists do many attacks in British soil. So compared to Chamberlain, Starmer is worse.
Hudders. says
“I have a piece of paper here sighned by Herr hitler.”
Repeating history. Evil. Shameful.
Eddie says
In November, in Britain we hold our act of National Remembrace to “honour the memory” of our people who died in two world wars, and indeed those who fell from the wider Commonwealth.
It is a sad but proud event.
The King and Prime Minister attend and each lays a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph – as do all living former Prime Ministers including Blair the prime engineer of the failed multi cultural project.
And the bands play solemn music and bugles sound the “Last Post”.
Red poppies everywhere signifying the flowers which grew on the trenches of Flanders.
This is becoming a farce.
The King and those politicians have all betrayed those whose lives were sacrificed in “the cause of freedom”.
Our folk fought to prevent our nation being overun by hostile foreigners, being controlled by an enemy power, being made second class citizens in our homeland and being denied any freedom to speak.
All these things have come to pass.
Sadiq Khan even wanted the date of Remembrance Sunday changed .
The United Kingdom today is underserving of any stance of dignity and is not supporting the fight against evil.
At the end of our ritual of Remembrance we all say in unison:
“WE WILL REMEMBER THEM ”
We do not. We as a nation are now unworthy to do so.
Margaret Curtis says
Speaking as a Briton, the only comfort I find in all this – & I agree that it isn’t much consolation to Israel – is that by now, Israel & indeed huge swathes of the world must surely be aware that the British government no longer speaks for the British people. Humiliating as that is, I’d hate the world to think that recognition of a Palestinan state, handing over the Chagos Islands against the will of their people, & so much else, was being done in my name & with my blessing.
Some day when we have another government in power & can start trying to unpick all this mess, I can only hope that all the countries wronged by the current regime will understand, & won’t hold it against the British people.
Eddie says
Yes Margaret I agree 100%.
Perhaps Starmer thinks he is buying “Peace for our time” in the manner of his shameful predecessor. Do we learn nothing from history ?
May be – in the short term- appeasing Islam will save us some trouble – just look at what happened in Milan yesterday.
But it is the cowards way. It may win Labour a few Muslim votes but it not stop the crocodile eating us last.
Britain is not quite at it’s lowest ebb.
That will come soon – with the enshrinement of the Islamophobia definition as Law – which will nullify all investigation into the Rape Gangs and their complicit supporters.
Our own darkest stain will be hidden forever.
But everyone in the world knows.
skeptiker says
Israel ist weniger von denen abhängig, als sie glauben. Sie sind einfach so unfassbar dumm.
Warum ist England noch mal aus der EU ausgetreten???
skeptiker says
Israel ist weniger von denen abhängig, als sie glauben. Sie sind einfach so unfassbar dumm.
Warum ist England noch mal aus der EU ausgetreten??? Erinnert sich noch jemand daran?