Archive: Palestine
Britain's shameful role shielding Israel from a UN inquiry
The UK's response to Gaza's 'bloody Monday' was based on astonishingly poor arguments to justify why Britain abstained in the vote after the UNHRC passed a resolution setting up an international commission of inquiry.
Opinion Former Articles
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NUT: Women and Children Prisoners in Palestine
NUT: Women and Children Prisoners in Palestine
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Global victims call for UK Government review into non-religious persecution
Persecuted humanists who have been victims of oppressive blasphemy and apostasy laws and societal hostility towards the non-religious have called on the UK Government to urgently launch a global review into the persecution of non-religious people.
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Comment: Palestine is a state – and a prison
Whatever the outcome of the vote in the House of Commons, Palestine is a state but it is also a prison.
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Pro-Gaza demo on Westminster Bridge as outrage grows over school bombing
75-foot banner unfurled along Westminster Bridge, as outrage grew over the Israeli bombing of a UN school in Gaza
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Western opinion 'rapidly turning against Israel' foreign secretary admits
Admission comes as news emerges of the bombing of another UN school, leading to at least 15 deaths
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The weird variables of peace in the Middle East
The Arab Spring and domestic Israeli and Palestinian politics make for an uncertain round of peace talks in the months ahead.
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The Political Week Online
David Cameron's tantric Euro-sausage moment.
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Comment: Britain should stop complaining about Israeli settlements
Arguing over Israel building a house on a mountain thousands of miles away simply isn't worth the Foreign Office's time.
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The Political Week Online: Leveson, Cameron sides with the press
The Leveson executive report was revealed and the coalition split on their reaction to it- Cameron siding with the press and receiving criticism for it.
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British abstention fails to derail Palestinian statehood
Palestine has been awarded the position of 'non-member observer state' at the UN after winning a comfortable majority in the general assembly.
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William Hague statement in full on Palestine
Read the foreign secretary's full statement on Palestinian appeal for UN observer status
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High stakes: UK makes a deal on Palestinian statehood
Britain has said it would back a Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN tomorrow if president Mahmoud Abbas agrees to three conditions.
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Comment: Time to recognise a Palestinian state
The UK and the UN should accept Palestinian statehood for peace to prevail.
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Hesitant Britain waits for Palestine verdict
Britain continued to hesitate yesterday in the face of increasingly frantic scenes at the UN, where delegates are preparing for the climax of the Palestinian statehood bid.
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Comment: What is Palestine's UN strategy?
Three ways in which Palestine's UN bid damages their own cause.
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Comment: Palestine solution is at the negotiating table
Negotiations and tough compromises are the only way to achieve two states for two peoples.
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Comment: Palestine vote will define Britain's role in the Arab Spring
The UK can seize the moment or take one further step into irrelevance.
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Cameron praises Arab Spring but refuses to budge on Palestine vote
David Cameron has issued a passionate defence of the Arab Spring at the UN, despite Britain's reluctance to support a Palestinian statehood bid.
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Comment: Britain's moral responsibility to Palestine
This week the Palestinians will make representations for statehood to the UN. Britain should support them.
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Palestine vote shakes British politics
The Palestinian Authority's attempt to secure statehood is causing deep uncertainty at the top of British politics.
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UK hesitates on Palestinian statehood vote
The UK government is still refusing to clarify exactly how it will vote when Palestinians bid for statehood next week.
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