Leicester mayor expresses anger and horror at Palestinian repression in letter to Foreign Secretary
It follows weeks of protest in Leicester
Leicester City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby wrote to the Government following protests in Leicester.
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Leicester s mayor has called on the UK government to recognise the suffering inflicted on people of Gaza following weeks of protest in the city.
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Palestinians attend the funeral of two women and eight children of the Abu Hatab family in Gaza City, who were killed after an Israeli air strike, Saturday.Credit: Khalil Hamra,AP
Jack Straw
May. 27, 2021 4:21 PM
When a young Israeli friend was a raw recruit to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), one of his less onerous tasks was delivering the daily newspapers to the officers.
I asked him which were the most popular papers, and which were read by the Commanding Officer. To the first question, he rattled off a list, headed by the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth, and Israel Hayom. The latter is a free-sheet, Israel’s most widely-distributed newspaper, which was controlled and indirectly owned by the U.S./Israeli gambling billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, until his death in January this year. Adelson was amongst the largest donors to Donald Trump’s campaigns – and a slavish acolyte of Benjamin Netanyahu.
How India Has Moved With Israel: A Timetable of Milestone Events
Israel has now come to serve as something of a model for the kind of society the current rulers of India want to build.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) seen in January 2018. Photo: Narendra Modi/Facebook
Rights26/May/2021
On May 17, 2021, Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative at the UN, announced the official Indian response to the latest round of Israeli brutalities against Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Gaza and also the West Bank.
While there was condemnation of the “indiscriminate rocket firings from Gaza” there was silence about Israel air strikes. After Trump’s policy shift in 2017, India has been careful â as displayed in this UN statement â to not speak of East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state even as it declared its support for a two-state solution, as if Israeli behaviour has not effectively destroyed i