The French president’s recognition of a Palestinian state tips the world diplomatic balance away from the U.S. and Israel.

France and the United Kingdom intend to recognize a Palestinian state. It's too early for that to help Palestinians.

Keir Starmer will need to weigh up whether the timing of recognition of a Palestinian state is more important for the peace process in the Middle East or his own domestic political problems, says

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, suggested Tuesday that France’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood would be similar to giving Nazi Germany a victory after World War II. Huckabee criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent announcement to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in the next two months,

The UN Conference on The Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution was held in New York behind closed doors on Tuesday.

The UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and a two-state solution in Gaza, Sir Keir Starmer has vowed. The prime minister said Benjamin Netanyahu’s government must end its starvation tactics and allow the supply of aid into the embattled enclave after a UN-backed food security body said the “worst-case scenario of famine” was playing out in the territory.

The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has rebuked France’s decision to move toward recognising the State of Palestine, warning that such symbolic gestures risk misleading the world into believing a solution exists when it does not.