Miliband has decisively broken with decades of UK inaction on Palestine

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 of a reset on Israel-Palestine . Miliband was also clear this was an issue he would take the lead on. This was not a man about to duck his moment. Yet, even at the end of the meeting, I was left wondering about all the strident comments against what Israel was doing - how far would the government actually go when addressing Parliament?