Article in The Independent: Britain must recognize its historic commitment to the Palestinian people

A spokeswoman for foreign affairs of the British Liberal Democratic Party called on her country to press to stop the escalation between the Palestinians and Israel, to recognize its historical commitment to the Palestinian people, and to use its influence as a permanent member of the Security Council to influence America, saying that US President Joe Biden declared that "diplomacy is back." So he now has to prove it.

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decisive thing in stopping the violence is getting the Israeli government and Hamas to comply with their obligations under international law,

said Laila Moran, a representative in the British Parliament for the Liberal Democratic Party, spokeswoman for the party’s foreign affairs,

for the British newspaper.

She added that she was disappointed that British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab did not take the opportunity before Parliament to condemn the scale of the Israeli air strikes and their targeting of innocent civilians, and because the Foreign Secretary's media statement Monday night did not include any recognition of the role of the Israeli government.

Moran confirmed that the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and the violence that followed by the Israeli authorities towards the Palestinian demonstrators and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, were what ignited the conflict, and that the firebox took years to manufacture.

Stand with international law

She also stressed that the spread of evictions, demolitions and new settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is not only inconsistent with international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, but rather leads only to making the viable two-state solution farther away than ever before, adding that if the United Kingdom is Stand by anything, it should be on the side of international law, and therefore, it should welcome, do not undermine the investigation by the International Criminal Court into possible war crimes committed by the Israeli government, which was what Prime Minister Boris Johnson did a few weeks ago.

Likewise, she said, Hamas’s response must be condemned, and they must be held accountable as well, since “firing rockets at innocent Israelis is wrong.”

And she concluded by saying, "As long as the basic issues are left unaddressed, the most that can be expected is not peace, but just a ceasefire, and possibly a re-escalation in a few years," and "The difference between the war today and the last war in 2014 is that there is no longer any." A negotiating table to return to "This is why the time is right for Britain to soon impose its stronger hand and recognize the state of Palestine.