By New Arab
November 21, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
The UK's Labour Party
pledged to halt arms sales to Israel and Saudi
Arabia, as part of its ambitious manifesto released
on Thursday morning.
Labour vowed to "conduct a root-and-branch reform of
our arms exports regime so ministers can never again
turn a blind eye to British-made weapons being used
to target innocent civilians".
Human rights abuses in the Middle East took up a
large part of the manifesto's foreign policy
section, which Labour believes if fixed could bring
stability to the region.
The party promised to "reform the international
rules-based order to secure justice and
accountability for breaches of human rights and
international law, such as the bombing of hospitals
in Syria, the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip,
the use of rape as a weapon of war against the
Rohingya community in Myanmar and the indiscriminate
bombardment of civilians in Yemen".
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"We will work through the UN and the
Commonwealth to insist on the protection of
human rights for Sri Lanka's minority Tamil
and Muslim populations," the document read.
Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,
has been criticised in the past for his
approach to UK foreign policy in the Middle
East.
This article was originally published by "The
New Arab" -
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Ed Note - Dr.
Azmi Bishara, a
Doha-based ex-member
of Israeli parliament, founded the
Arabic-language news website (The New Arab
or Al-Araby Al-Jadeed) as the
first platform launched by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed
in March 2014. Six months later, they launched an
Arabic
daily newspaper from London.
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