Starmer had already spoken to Netanyahu that afternoon ahead of his statement in a diplomatic nicety that jars with Israel’s increasing world isolation.
Starmer, having seen Israel’s reaction to French president Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Palestine, knew the reaction would be furious. It was already priced in.
A wave of anger toward Israel is washing over Netanyahu’s administration in direct proportion to the horrors in Gaza. Emaciated infants, children in soup lines, and men fighting over flour. Deadly shootings at aid points and hungry foreign volunteer doctors have focused minds in capitals around the world, not least in London.
She appeared to capture a moment when Israelis are now openly articulating that what was once seen as a just war and retaliation for the 7 October attacks has tipped into an unjust and unequal persecution. While in 2023 the Hamas attack killed 1,200 people, with 250 taken hostage, the subsequent Israeli offensive has killed nearly 60,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Back in London, while the Israeli reaction had been expected, UK diplomats had been keeping a watching brief on the US, waiting to see what the reaction would be from Israel’s staunchest ally.
Unlike Macron, Starmer does enjoy a genuinely good working relationship with Trump, even if the President isn’t above giving him a kicking sometimes. Trump has also grown tired of defending the indefensible. On Monday, he rebuked Netanyahu for asserting there is no starvation in Gaza.
Far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene this week pushed to cancel $500m in funding for Israel’s rocket defence system and has called Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide.”
What is more puzzling to Westminster observers is why Starmer decided Tuesday was the time to expedite his position on Palestinian statehood, having been seemingly steadfast in his determination it would only be a symbolic act.
The controversial but largely symbolic move is only one of the steps the British Government is taking. Amid the rubble, disease, rubbish and tents of Gaza, there is no actual Palestinian state to currently recognise.
While the Brits acknowledge the US will ultimately take the lead in dealing with Israel, as the Trump administration had been focused on the – now paused – ceasefire talks alongside the Qataris, there is still a wider question of what happens to Palestine the day after an end to active combat.
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In his calls with the leaders of Australia and New Zealand, on Wednesday and after speaking to the United Arab Emirates leader on Tuesday night, Starmer has started with the more persuadable international allies whom he hopes will fall in behind his plans.
Earlier this year president Mahmoud Abbas took steps to make his Palestinian Authority an internationally credible option to take over Gaza by ending a programme to provide payments to families of Palestinians killed or imprisoned by Israel, known as the “martyrs’ fund” and dubbed “pay for slay” by the US.
Nonetheless, Israel’s diplomatic isolation is worsening, demonstrated by Britain joining France in recognising Palestine. For Starmer, keeping the impetus going for the next six weeks is key. His move doesn’t mean other members of the G7 will follow suit.
And it’s no wonder an increasingly isolated Netanyahu rejected Starmer’s conditions and lashed out. To have acceded would have meant his government would have fallen because he relies on the backing of ultra nationalist extremists who want to seize the occupied lands and evict Palestinians, not give them their own state.
Slowly, surely, international pressure is building. Starmer is right to hit the phones even as getting aid into Gaza is the world’s number one priority.
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