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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Netanyahu says Starmer ‘rewarding monstrous terrorism,’ claims Palestinian state will threaten UK
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasts his British counterpart Keir Starmer for announcing conditional plans to recognize a Palestinian state, saying that it “rewards Hamas’s monstrous terrorism and punishes its victims.”
“A jihadist state on Israel’s border TODAY will threaten Britain TOMORROW,” writes Netanyahu in English on X.
“Appeasement towards jihadist terrorists always fails. It will fail you too. It will not happen,” he concludes.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"Starmer rewards Hamas’s monstrous terrorism & punishes its victims.
A jihadist state on Israel’s border TODAY will threaten Britain TOMORROW.
Appeasement towards jihadist terrorists always fails. It will fail you too. It will not happen."
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) July 29, 2025
Starmer told his cabinet that Britain will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation” in Gaza, including agreeing to a ceasefire, dropping any plans to annex land claimed as part of a future Palestinian state and committing to a long-term peace process.
Starmer’s announcement of the potential move came days after French President Emmanuel Macron said Paris would recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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