UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced on Monday that Britain will consider recognizing a Palestinian state, the Guardian reported the following day.
Palestinians must have “a political horizon so that they can see that there is going to be irreversible progress to a two-state solution,” Cameron said.
Following a meeting last week in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cameron also added that this is part of an attempt to pressure Israeli decision-makers to support such a proposal.
The UK pressures Israeli legislators to discuss Palestinian state
Netanyahu has criticized this proposal and similar proposals, saying that they would “endanger the state of Israel,” the UK-based news organization added. The Israeli prime minister also called attempts by allied states, including the US, to pressure Israel into supporting the proposal “coercion.”
As the war in Gaza continues, “We should be starting to set out what a Palestinian state would look like – what it would comprise, how it would work,” Cameron said.
