13, March 2016 Cameron
Blasts Israel
In a stinging indictment of Israel, British Prime Minister,
David Cameron said he was horrified by what he had seen in the occupied
territories in Jerusalem. On a recent tour he witnessed the effective
encirclement of east Jerusalem on occupied Palestinian land and expressed
profound concern to MPs in the House of Commons. The United Nations and the
international community, including the U.S., regards all of East Jerusalem,
including the core Old City, as being part of the Palestinian territories -
illegally occupied by Israel. In December 2015, a United Nations conference
accused Israel of practicing” ethnic cleansing against Palestinians”.
“Since Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, it had
implemented a comprehensive policy to deepen its control over the city by
weakening Palestinian presence and ties there,” Shawan Jabarin, the general
director of a Ramallah legal center told the conference. UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that the Israeli occupation had led to “fear,
humiliation, frustration and mistrust.” Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood
condemned the Israeli Government’s decision to commission 450 new settlement
homes in the West Bank.
Israel has now reached a ‘white South Africa moment” – only a
total economic boycott of its products will nudge it to reverse decades of
discrimination and ethnic cleansing.
This comes on the heels of
highly disturbing reports of Palestinian violence and torture of Palestinian
prisoners at the Shikma
interrogation facility. Such acts of brutality must be condemned.
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