Jeremy Corbyn attacks government for 'doing
nothing' to help Palestinians
By Marcus Dysch
December 08, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Jeremy Corbyn has attacked governments
which “pay lip service” to a proposed
two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Labour leader said those in power “do
nothing to use the leverage they have to end
the oppression and dispossession of the
Palestinian people”.
In a major speech at the United Nations in
Geneva, Mr Corbyn also renewed his attack on
Donald Trump for announcing the United
States would recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital.
He said the US President’s decision was “not
only reckless and provocative – it risks
setting back any prospect of a political
settlement of the Israel-Palestine
conflict”.
Mr Corbyn outlined his positions on tax
avoidance, Brexit negotiations and a series
of global issues during the address on
Friday.
In his comments on Israel and the
Palestinians he went on to call for the UN
to work with Israeli peace campaign groups
to “demand an end to the multiple human
rights abuses Palestinians face on a daily
basis”.
After attacking the government’s policies on
Yemen and Myanmar, Mr Corbyn added: “And our
governments pay lip service to a
comprehensive settlement and two-state
solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict,
but do nothing to use the leverage they have
to end the oppression and dispossession of
the Palestinian people.
“Seventy years after the UN General Assembly
voted to create a Palestinian state
alongside what would become Israel, and half
a century since Israel occupied the whole of
historic Palestine, they should take a lead
from Israeli peace campaigners such as Gush
Shalom and Peace Now and demand an end to
the multiple human rights abuses
Palestinians face on a daily basis.”
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