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http://news.yahoo.com/uk-parliament-votes-recognize-palestinian-state-214234377.html
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers
voted Monday in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state, a symbolic
move intended to increase pressure for a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Legislators in
the House of Commons voted 274 to 12 to support a motion calling on the
British government to "recognize the state of Palestine alongside the
state of Israel."
Prime
Minister David Cameron and other government leaders abstained, and more
than half of the 650 Commons members did not participate in the vote.
But
the motion had support from both government and opposition lawmakers,
who said it could help kick-start the peace process following a summer
war in Gaza that claimed the lives of more than 2,100 Palestinians, the
majority civilians, and more than 70 Israelis, most of them soldiers.
Labour
Party legislator Grahame Morris said recognizing a Palestinian state
could help break the impasse in peace negotiations before it was too
late.
Otherwise, he said, "any hope of a two-state solution — the only viable solution — will have disappeared altogether."
Conservative
lawmaker Nicholas Soames — grandson of World War II Prime Minister
Winston Churchill — said that "to recognize Palestine is both morally
right and is in our national interest."
The
government said the vote would not change Britain's official diplomatic
stance. Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood said the U.K. would
recognize Palestinian statehood when it would help bring about peace...READ MORE
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