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| MP's response (click to enlarge) |
I would like to thank you very much for your very speedy and detailed response to my letter concerning tax funds going to convicted Palestinian terrorists. I really appreciate the fact that you have taken this very seriously, have clearly spent a lot of time reading the material, and that you are going to raise the issue with William Hague. I believe this marks you out as an outstanding MP.
p.s. I note you said you were "a supporter of Israel's right to exist". This is a statement used by many MPs, which has always struck me as rather curious and I know many Israelis are offended by it. To have ones' very existence even considered as open to debate is something that is applied to no other country in the world (many of which were created AFTER the modern day state of Israel, and many of which were the result of either war, arbitrary colonial land demarcations or a mixture of both). If a foreign diplomat asserted that they "support the UK's right to exist" I do not believe that this would be considered as expression of either great support or sympathy.Anyway, let's see what response I get from William Hague now. I think this issue is going to be harder for the Palestinians and their supporters to shake off as the usual 'response to Israeli aggression', especially as the same Palestinian Authority that is making such generous and long-term payments to terrorists are claiming they are unable to pay even small electricity bills to keep the people's power flowing.
2 Dec 2013 Update: The MP has sent a further response about the 'right to exist' comment.

1 comment:
The quote you've attributed to Martin Luthur King Jnr in the header of this blog is a hoax and not true. People reading this blog can easily ascertain that it's not true by searching Google.
Much of what you've said about Palestinian prisoners is also highly inaccurate.
I hope you are able to learn from Nelson Mandella's legacy that apartheid is not the way forward. It wasn't for South Africa and it's not for Israel either. He was once regarded as a terrorist too!
Lasting peace based on mutual trust and freedom for all regardless of their faith or background is the only way forward.
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