Gavin Williamson: Keir Starmer Has Got It Badly Wrong on Recognising a Palestinian State Too Soon

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

Instead of empty gestures, Western leaders could have pressed for a detailed post-war plan – securing Gaza, removing Hamas from power, reforming the Palestinian Authority, and laying real foundations for future statehood

Gavin Williamson: Keir Starmer has got it badly wrong on recognising a Palestinian state too soon

Sir Gavin Williamson is a former Secretary of State for Education, and former Defence secretary. He is MP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge. The pictures of hundreds of happy young faces stretched out in front of me. Bright young things. They looked so beautiful, joyful, and full of life. I thought about the horror that they must have felt and I could not help but cry. The images of the 378 men and women murdered at the Nova music festival …