Recognising A Palestinian State

Finally, the UK, Portugal, Canada and Australia recognised the state of Palestine today ahead of a conference of the UN general assembly in New York where other nations are expected to join the recognition, including France, making over 150 countries, to have recognised Palestine by the end of next week,
In his announcement, Keir Starmer said that the announcement shows government’s hopes for a secure Israel alongside a viable Palestine although predictably, the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose own party rejects there ever being a Palestinian State, says recognition is a prize for terrorism although for most decent people it is a response to over 70 years of military occupation and genocide against the Palestinians as the abhorrent death toll from the war on Gaza continues to rise and conditions for the people trapped there become even more desperate.
The move comes after the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948 and the formation of the state of Israel which as any history buff will explain, came about as reward for their own terrorism.
The Irgun was a body of Zionist Jews who actively sought to establish a Jewish state and through assassinations, bombing British hotels, markets, police stations and Embassy's, posting letter bombs and kidnappings as well as massacring entire Palestinian villages, forced Britain to withdraw from Palestine and give up its mandate to pass the problem to the United Nations who partitioned Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
So if Israel is condemning the formation of a Palestinians state as a 'reward for Hamas' and their terrorist acts, they must know that Israel therefore came about as a 'reward' for their own terrorism or maybe, just like the genocide they are committing, it is different if they are the ones doing it.
What the UN can do about, especially as it is the United States complicit in facilitating and dismissing the war crimes, is another thing but as one Labour MP said, we have placed ourselves on the right side of history and although this recognition alone won’t change the lives of Palestinians, it is a timely and necessary riposte to an authoritarian Israeli government that has increasingly made Israel a pariah state.