{"id":378675,"date":"2018-09-26T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-will-recognize-palestinian-state-if-we-win-general-election\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:29:07","slug":"labour-will-recognize-palestinian-state-if-we-win-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labour-will-recognize-palestinian-state-if-we-win-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour will recognize Palestinian state if we win General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.09\/thumbnail\/5bab846bfc7e93c0318b45f7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would recognize a Palestinian state as soon as it takes office, during his speech to the party&#8217;s conference in Liverpool. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>To widespread applause, Corbyn said the party would recognize a state of Palestine in order to implement the UN-brokered two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BX-Fg_nqVfA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But a quarter of a century on from the Oslo Accords we are no closer to justice or peace and the Palestinian tragedy continues, while the outside world stands by,&#8221; <\/em>stated Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As my great Israeli friend Uri Avnery who died this year put it: \u201cWhat is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And in order to help make that two-state settlement a reality we will recognize a Palestinian state as soon as we take office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jeremy Corbyn has said, a Labour government would recognise an independent state of Palestine as soon as he takes office. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lab2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lab2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nadeem Ahmed (@Muqadaam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Muqadaam\/status\/1044510728307310592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biggest cheer in the hall so far on our estimates goes to this section of Corbyn\u2019s speech on Palestine: \u201cAnd in order to help make that two-state settlement a reality we will recognise a Palestinian state as soon as we take office.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lab18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lab18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulBrandITV\/status\/1044924282667761664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As I&#8217;ve long thought-Corbyn all but confirms that the first act of his government would be to recognise Palestine. Given everything which has happened this summer, it might have been er, wise not to hammer this point home. But it&#8217;s literally what Corbyn is in politics for. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lab18?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lab18<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewis_goodall\/status\/1044924815587643392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Labour leader also condemned the killing of largely unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza during the Great Return March at the hands of Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers since the six-week demonstration kicked off on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Taking aim at the <em>\u201congoing denial of justice and rights to the Palestinian people,\u201d<\/em> he said:\u00a0<em>\u201cOur Party is united in condemning the shooting of hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza by Israeli forces and the passing of Israel\u2019s discriminatory Nation-State Law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/439368-galloway-starmer-brexit-referendum\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Labour\u2019s Starmer may have just cost his party the next election\u2019 \u2013 George Galloway<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tensions have heightened between Israel and the Occupied Territories of Palestine after US President Donald Trump effectively recognized Jerusalem as the country\u2019s capital.\u00a0The decision was widely protested in Palestine and abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is avowedly committed to a two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May said she disagreed with Trump\u2019s controversial decision to move the US embassy and said the UK had no intention to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Britain was one among the 128 countries who voted in favor of a UN resolution condemning Trump\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/subscribe\/\" id=\"subscribe-focus\">Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/439459-palestine-corbyn-conference-israel\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would recognize a Palestinian state as soon as it takes office, during his speech to the party&#8217;s conference in Liverpool. To widespread applause, Corbyn said the party would recognize a state of Palestine in order to implement the UN-brokered two-state solution. &#8220;But a quarter of a century on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}