Britain May Recognise Palestine as a State This Year, Says Foreign Minister Lammy

May 5, 2025 — Breitbart.com reports: “The United Kingdom is talking with France and Saudi Arabia about recognising Palestine as a state later this year, the Foreign affairs minister of its left-wing government has revealed.

British Foreign Minister David Lammy told a House of Lords committee this week that the government is in discussions with France and Saudi Arabia to recognise Palestine as a state. The declaration would be part of a push to keep the notion of a two-state solution alive and would likely be made at a New York conference in June to be hosted by France and the Saudis, he said.

‘No one has a veto on when the United Kingdom recognises that Palestinian state,’ Lammy said according to The Guardian, but added that the intention of the move was not to make a symbolic gesture but rather to use British recognition as a tool to further the establishment of a Palestinian state.

‘It’s unacceptable for any group of people to have lived without no state for longer than I’ve been alive,’ Lammy said…”  (Genesis 15:18 states: In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates  and in Joshua 1:4 we read: From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.  These verses encompass all of the land modern Israel currently possesses, plus all of the land of the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised.  See the next report.) 

Gantz: Idea of creating a Palestinian state ‘disconnected from reality’

May 6, 2025 — The Jerusalem Post reports: “National Unity Party Chairman Benny Gantz voiced strong opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state and said anyone talking about such an idea was ‘disconnected from reality,’ during remarks at the Makor Rishon Settlement Conference in Ofra on Tuesday morning.

Gantz said Israel ‘cannot allow a direct and significant threat to its citizens on any border,’ and insisted the country must retain security control and operational freedom in Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and along the Syrian frontier. ‘Anyone talking about a Palestinian state or withdrawals is simply disconnected from the security reality,’ he stated.

Addressing the 2005 Gaza Disengagement Plan, Gantz said its greatest mistake was evacuating the northern Gaza communities of Dugit, Nisanit, and Elei Sinai. He said Israel should have maintained a presence there ‘to control the territory’ and signal that the 1967 lines ‘are not relevant.’…”