British officials fear Donald Trump could recognise Israeli control over illegal settlements on the West Bank in retaliation for the UK, Australia, France and others deciding to recognise Palestine. UK officials said some of the president’s allies were putting pressure on him to recognise Israeli sovereignty over settlements in the West Bank and Arab leaders were pushing back. Trump has said little about the Israeli expansion in the West Bank but he is under pressure from some allies to endorse it. Such a plan would be undermined however if Trump recognised Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which Arab leaders would see as crossing a red line. With Trump’s blessing, the UAE signed the accords in 2020 after Israel agreed to drop a proposal to annex parts of the West Bank.