Showing posts with label Avigdor Lieberman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avigdor Lieberman. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a Muslim minister at the Foreign Office quits over Gaza policy.
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Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a Muslim minister at the Foreign Office quits over Gaza policy. (TOI).
A British minister who was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet has resigned over the British government’s policy on Gaza, she said Tuesday.
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a minister at the Foreign Office and minister for faith and communities, wrote on Twitter: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza.”
Warsi’s parents were Pakistani immigrants and she was made a member of the House of Lords in 2007.
She was appointed to Cameron’s Cabinet when his coalition government took power in 2010 and while she initially had a high media profile, her star had dimmed in recent years.
She was shuffled out of the full Cabinet, the powerful inner circle of government ministers, in 2012.
Cameron’s coalition government has drawn criticism, including from the opposition Labour party, for not taking a tougher line against Israel over operations in Gaza.
He said on Monday that the UN was “right” to condemn the shelling of a UN school in Gaza which killed 10 people on Sunday but declined to say whether he thought it breached international law.
Warsi resigns!! I recall being on Sunday Politics with her and @HazelBlearsMP when she likened 7/7 bombers to freedom fighters.
— Haras Rafiq (@HarasRafiq) August 5, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Foreign Minister Lieberman says Israel + PA should consider transferring control of Gaza to UN.
Foreign Minister Lieberman says Israel + PA should consider transferring control of Gaza to UN. (Haaretz).
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that Israel and the Palestinian Authority should consider transferring control of Gaza to the UN.
"Everyone is asking, what happens after the operation ends? Suppose Israel defeats Hamas. There are a few options. International control of Gaza, by the UN, should certainly be considered."
Lieberman cited the British Mandate over Palestine and the UN mandates in East Timor and Kosovo as examples.
"We saw it works quite well there," he said. "… It requires an agreement between us and the Palestinian Authority. It doesn't require consent from the UN, just from the parties involved – Israel and the PA."(Jonathan Lis)
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