Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK will recognise the state of Palestine is the culmination of two months of intensive diplomacy that has stretched from the West Bank to last week’s state banquet at Windsor Castle.

The Prime Minister hopes his decision will reinvigorate the Middle East peace process, and bring renewed focus to the long-wished for two-state solution of Israel and Palestine living side by side.

British diplomatic sources say the recognition – which they frame as a “historic moment” – is designed to give hope to Palestinians – and Israelis – that a two-state solution is possible. New Feature

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But it has also caused anger in the US and Israel, where diplomatic insiders believe that it pushes such a solution even f

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