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Whilst I agree with numerous points in this annual parliamentary report, I must highlight the way in which I believe it is being used, yet again, as a political tool, whereby countries considered ‘friends’ are protected and others singled out as targets by the USA or by the EU are subject to criticism; a clear case of double standards.
Nevertheless, this year it expresses ‘grave concern at the continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’. Despite holding the Israeli Government and the Palestinian people almost equally responsible – a position to which I am strongly opposed – it does condemn the assassinations carried out by Israel and the ongoing Israeli activity to establish settlements, which includes allowing settlers illegally to move into the occupied territories. There is mild criticism of the continued expropriation of land for the construction of the so-called ‘security fence’. This is the very least we can do, in light of the denial by the Israeli Government, with the complicity and support of the USA, of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people, who are subjected to the most brutal violence.
As for the brutal aggression and occupation of Iraq by the USA and its allies, not one word in the report..."@en1
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