Miliband has decisively broken with decades of UK inaction on Palestine

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It is a welcome shock to find a government prepared to be bold and take the lead. Those in favour of peace and justice in the Middle East will have to work hard to keep it on course In a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on 7 September, I heard him proclaiming that the UK was genuinely serious about taking action against Israeli violations of international law. Britain’s diplomat-in-chief did not spell out what these actions would be, but he was insistent this would be part