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Today, why Britain recognizing Palestine matters. Today in Focus is supported by Service Now, the AI platform for business transformation.

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Learn how to put AI agents to work for your people at service now.co.uk. I've always said that we will recognise a Palestinian state

as a contribution to a proper peace process

at the moment of maximum impact for the two-state solution.

With that solution now under threat, this is the moment to act.

In the next couple of days, a delegation of British ministers will arrive in New York

for the United Nations General Assembly.

In its grand hall, one item will be top of the agenda.

A century after Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, the historic

document that helped pave the way for the creation of Israel,

the government will make what many see as a long

overdue step, recognising the state of Palestine.

It's not been an easy process, and it has been long fought for.

The British are the ones who handed our country to European immigrants.

I remember the stories of the resistance fighters that went against the British army back then,

and we grew up learning more and more about the British imperialism and the Belford Declaration and British occupation of Palestine.

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