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Tuesday 29 December 2009

Barbarism a la carte?‏

Is Ivan Lewis MP - who intervened with the Chinese authorities to seek clemency for a convicted heroin trafficker - the same Ivan Lewis MP who was a strong supporter of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza in which 1400 Palestinians were murdered including 400 children?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lewis

Apparently the Chinese execution made Lewis 'sick to the stomach' and he called on China to 'adhere to the basic standards of human rights'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/uk/8433285.stm?psdata=11_3_8_4_9_10__CD11__CK12_14_15_

When will hypocrites like Lewis apply the same standards to the lives of Palestinians that they self righteously apply to the lives of British citizens?