Roadmap and PeacemakingIsrael and Palestine
What starts the numerous peacemaking efforts? What brings them to a halt? Are they doomed to fail because the problem is intractable? Or are some peacemaking plans simply unrealistic? With one-sided conditions and expectations?
Friday, September 15, 2006
English MPs: Release Palestinian legislators now
Release Palestinian legislators now
Wednesday September 13, 2006 | The Guardian
Israel has abducted and imprisoned 33 members of the Palestinian legislative council including the speaker and five ministers, including the deputy prime minister. We consider the imprisonment of democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian Authority as an attack on the fundamental principles of democracy.
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... We support the demand by the Inter-Parliamentary Union that the Palestinian parliamentarians should be released immediately.
Norman Baker MP
Roger Berry MP ... etc. etc. etc.
Release Palestinian legislators now
Wednesday September 13, 2006 | The Guardian
Israel has abducted and imprisoned 33 members of the Palestinian legislative council including the speaker and five ministers, including the deputy prime minister. We consider the imprisonment of democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian Authority as an attack on the fundamental principles of democracy.
...
... We support the demand by the Inter-Parliamentary Union that the Palestinian parliamentarians should be released immediately.
Norman Baker MP
Roger Berry MP ... etc. etc. etc.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Israeli raid in Lebanon violates truce
Excite News: "Israeli raid in Lebanon violates truce, Annan says | Aug 19, 6:54 PM (ET)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said an Israeli raid in Lebanon on Saturday violated the U.N.-backed truce and made him 'deeply concerned.'
A statement from the United Nations said Annan had spoken with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Olmert, on Saturday about the raid.
'The secretary-general is deeply concerned about a violation by the Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security Council resolution 1701,' a spokesman for Annan said in the statement, which was posted on the U.N. Web site." ...
Excite News: "Israeli raid in Lebanon violates truce, Annan says | Aug 19, 6:54 PM (ET)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said an Israeli raid in Lebanon on Saturday violated the U.N.-backed truce and made him 'deeply concerned.'
A statement from the United Nations said Annan had spoken with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Olmert, on Saturday about the raid.
'The secretary-general is deeply concerned about a violation by the Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security Council resolution 1701,' a spokesman for Annan said in the statement, which was posted on the U.N. Web site." ...
