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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Warsi is right - arms embargo and sanctions on Israel long overdue

If in effect we can have a Tory peer saying we need arms embargoes and sanctions on Israel, is it not time for all UK main political parties to also support the upholding of international rights and agreements that thus far Israel is callously disregarding?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28657623
    And it is time for a stronger Labour Party call for sanctions and arms embargoes against the perpetrators of international war crimes and violations of the Geneva convention as argued by Richard Burden MP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-burden/gaza-palestine_b_5646995.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-gaza

Anna Rose