Days or even hours after President Trump departs Britain this afternoon, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to confirm that the British government will vote to recognize a Palestinian state next week at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. But it puts Britain at odds with the United States. Mr. Trump is opposed to recognizing a Palestinian state, though he has not made an issue of it with Mr. Starmer, with whom he has developed a warm relationship, despite their divergent politics. “I’m not going to take a position; I don’t mind him taking a position,” Mr. Trump said during his visit to Scotland in July, when he was asked about Mr. Starmer’s movement toward recognizing Palestinian statehood. 1 position, because you have a lot of starving people.”
