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UK government accused of hypocrisy on Palestine
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi denounces Tory party for failure to act on Palestinian plight
21.05.2021
Credit: https://sayeedawarsi.com/
LONDON
A prominent member of the House of Lords criticized the government here on Thursday for hypocrisy and failure to reprimand Israel for its illegal occupation of Palestinian and indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi denounced the government for claiming to uphold democracy and human rights across the world but failing to implement the two-state solution and peace process between Israel and Palestine that will end the illegal occupation and brutal attacks on Palestinians.
“We have a policy of a two-state solution, but we do not recognize Palestine as a state,” Warsi said in a speech to the House of Lords. “Ministers refuse even to use its name. We have a policy of a peace process, but no appetite to initiate or prioritize one. I saw then, at the heart of government, what we see now; our government failing to implement their own stated policy.”
“We have a policy that settlement-building is illegal and contrary to international law, yet there is no consequence when, every year, more and more settlers supported by the Israeli government and diaspora groups occupy more land in Palestine. We do nothing to deter Israel from expanding settlements, forced evictions and home demolitions,” she said.
The senior peer and former Tory Cabinet member reminded the chamber that a part of its peace process policy, the government recognizes occupied East Jerusalem as an integral part of a future Palestinian state but when occupation forces illegally enter Palestinian homes which have been occupied for centuries by the same families, forcefully evict their inhabitants and replace them with illegal settlers, the government does not act in favor of its policies.
The ruling Conservative Party was also denounced for its double standards on support and funding of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and upholding international justice yet opposing the ICC’s investigations into war crimes and human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government against Palestinians.
“Each time that we fail to implement our own policy, we send out the message to an ever-extremist right-wing Israeli government that there will be no cost of consequences for the treatment of the Palestinians. This total impunity is feeding Israel’s prolific rise in far-right extremism, leaving society fighting for its soul,” she said.
Warsi said it is important for her to educate people on oppression in Palestine and the plight of its people so future generations will know to take a stand against the whole-scale abuses of human rights and crimes against humanity.
She highlighted the state-sponsored apartheid that exists in occupied territories, bringing into focus the luxuries and basic amenities that illegal settlers enjoy such as civilian rule, access to water and electricity and freedom of movement.
Palestinians, however, live under brutal military occupation, are denied access to water and electricity and are prevented from traveling across the land that legally belongs to them.
“These two people are in the same land but with differing legal systems and even separate roads to the same place, so we know, as it is documented by Human Rights Watch, that the threshold for the international war crime of apartheid and persecutions has been passed,” she said. “This is ethnic cleansing and it is denying the reality that the state of Palestine even exists.”
After nearly two weeks of intense and brutal air raids and ground attacks, the Israeli government agreed to a cease-fire on Thursday.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed, the majority being women and children. Thousands more have been severely injured and displaced.
Israeli forces have demolished entire residential and office towers, including the where offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press were housed. It is an act considered a war crime by rights groups.
Occupation forces have also targeted Gaza’s electricity grid, leaving it without power and cut off from the rest of the world.
www.aa.com.tr
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi denounces Tory party for failure to act on Palestinian plight
21.05.2021
LONDON
A prominent member of the House of Lords criticized the government here on Thursday for hypocrisy and failure to reprimand Israel for its illegal occupation of Palestinian and indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi denounced the government for claiming to uphold democracy and human rights across the world but failing to implement the two-state solution and peace process between Israel and Palestine that will end the illegal occupation and brutal attacks on Palestinians.
“We have a policy of a two-state solution, but we do not recognize Palestine as a state,” Warsi said in a speech to the House of Lords. “Ministers refuse even to use its name. We have a policy of a peace process, but no appetite to initiate or prioritize one. I saw then, at the heart of government, what we see now; our government failing to implement their own stated policy.”
“We have a policy that settlement-building is illegal and contrary to international law, yet there is no consequence when, every year, more and more settlers supported by the Israeli government and diaspora groups occupy more land in Palestine. We do nothing to deter Israel from expanding settlements, forced evictions and home demolitions,” she said.
The senior peer and former Tory Cabinet member reminded the chamber that a part of its peace process policy, the government recognizes occupied East Jerusalem as an integral part of a future Palestinian state but when occupation forces illegally enter Palestinian homes which have been occupied for centuries by the same families, forcefully evict their inhabitants and replace them with illegal settlers, the government does not act in favor of its policies.
The ruling Conservative Party was also denounced for its double standards on support and funding of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and upholding international justice yet opposing the ICC’s investigations into war crimes and human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government against Palestinians.
“Each time that we fail to implement our own policy, we send out the message to an ever-extremist right-wing Israeli government that there will be no cost of consequences for the treatment of the Palestinians. This total impunity is feeding Israel’s prolific rise in far-right extremism, leaving society fighting for its soul,” she said.
Warsi said it is important for her to educate people on oppression in Palestine and the plight of its people so future generations will know to take a stand against the whole-scale abuses of human rights and crimes against humanity.
She highlighted the state-sponsored apartheid that exists in occupied territories, bringing into focus the luxuries and basic amenities that illegal settlers enjoy such as civilian rule, access to water and electricity and freedom of movement.
Palestinians, however, live under brutal military occupation, are denied access to water and electricity and are prevented from traveling across the land that legally belongs to them.
“These two people are in the same land but with differing legal systems and even separate roads to the same place, so we know, as it is documented by Human Rights Watch, that the threshold for the international war crime of apartheid and persecutions has been passed,” she said. “This is ethnic cleansing and it is denying the reality that the state of Palestine even exists.”
After nearly two weeks of intense and brutal air raids and ground attacks, the Israeli government agreed to a cease-fire on Thursday.
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed, the majority being women and children. Thousands more have been severely injured and displaced.
Israeli forces have demolished entire residential and office towers, including the where offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press were housed. It is an act considered a war crime by rights groups.
Occupation forces have also targeted Gaza’s electricity grid, leaving it without power and cut off from the rest of the world.
UK government accused of hypocrisy on Palestine
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi denounces Tory party for failure to act on Palestinian plight - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
lol. It’s a joke.
