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Britain Used to Pride Itself on Not Negotiating with Terrorists, Now We're Rewarding Them
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Tom Harris - On July 29, 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the UK will recognize a Palestinian state. Starmer said the only thing that could prevent such recognition would be a ceasefire. In other words, provided Hamas could extend the conflict, then recognition by the UK would go ahead. No wonder Hamas were grateful to our government. At a stroke, all the terrorists' actions, all the rapes, all the kidnappings, all the murders of innocent Israelis, and even all the Palestinian deaths that had occurred since - all were justified by the UK's absurd attempt to virtue signal on an international stage. What, exactly, will the UK recognize? Palestine does not exist today. It has no borders, no capital city, no currency. It doesn't even have a real history. If Starmer presses ahead with recognition he will be doing no more than seeking to appease those in his own country who can never be appeased so long as Israel continues to exist. Except it will gift to the Hamas Islamist terrorists - and let us remind ourselves that it remains so designated and proscribed in the UK and in Europe - an undeserved reward for provoking the dreadful conflict we see on our screens every night. Consider the fact: before October 7, 2023, Britain had no intention of recognizing a borderless country with no legal status. But after the brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent people, the very people who carried out the slaughter are celebrating and thanking Keir Starmer for this latest advance. That is something of which we in Britain should be ashamed. Britain used to pride itself on its policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Now we're in danger of rewarding them. The writer is a former Labour MP.