but there were not thousands of Israelis
killed over the summer but there were
thousands of Palestinians killed over
the summer and 500 of those were small
children I dare say a little older than
the honorable members grandson on which
I congratulate him but in many cases not
much older there's an air of unreality
about this debate so far I had thought
that parliament in this God was catching
up with public opinion but the speech
that we've just heard and the
interventions earlier indicate seem to
indicate otherwise the minister is on
record is saying Israel lives in a tough
neighborhood the problem is that Israel
is living on top of somebody else's
neighborhood and the attempt to equate
violence from the illegally occupied
with violence from the illegal occupier
is preposterous and yet repeated over
and over again already in the short
debate that we've had so far it is
illegal and moral right of an occupied
people to rise up against their illegal
occupi and after all it's not that the
occupation just started
the West Bank and Jerusalem has been
illegally occupied for
47 years how much longer do you expect
the occupied people to wait for their
rights well this poppy about peace
talks and the rest there are no peace
talks there is no peace process and
contrary to what the honorable gentleman
just said there are not two countries
involved in in this there's only one
country which is occupying the land of
another you would think Perhaps it is
the case that members in here have no
idea how all this started in this very
building almost 100 years
ago when Mr balur on behalf of one
people offered to a second people the
land which belonged to a third people
without insulting any of the three
people involved we have a historic
obligation greater than any other
country to side with the victims of the
ACT which Mr balur performed yet there's
no sign of it here Parliament did
recently take a decisive and important
decision but the government has not
caught up with it the government
continues to support Israel to license
the export of arms to Israel and to
afford Israel the criminal in this
picture which in
1967 was ordered by the United Nations
to withdraw from the land it had
illegally occupied yet continues to
refuse to do so we should not be trading
with them at all we should not be
exporting anything to them at all or
allowing the importation from them of
anything at all that's after all what we
do with any other international law
breaker I have very few seconds
left they don't like up them Mr
Pritchard well some of them do some of
them some of them
do the 15 seconds I have left I can only
say this give wi I will give win right
Morris The Honorable gentleman um
recognize that the Bal for declaration
short though it was did insist on a
protection for non-jews for Palestinians
for uh for Christians within that um
territory it did so insist Mr Pritchard
but it was apparently written in
invisible ink for it has been forgotten
by successive British administrations
certainly IGN ignored entirely by the
state which came into being in uh uh
decades later as a result of the Bal for
declaration in 45 seconds let me say
this if honorable members think that
Gaza has been an erupting
soore of enormous International
strategic importance and indeed it has
then they better start thinking about
Jerusalem the ethnic cleansing of
Jerusalem the judaization of
Jerusalem the driving out of Christians
and Muslims from Jerusalem the closure
of the AL AXA mosque for the very first
time since Israel illegally got its
hands on it in
1967 and the fighting which has been
alluded to already all add up to a
crisis about to
erupt Mr on the fundament principle of
whose land it is The Honorable member
for Bradford West is right and what's
more the world more widely is beginning
to take this View and opinion AC