Tony Blair, special envoy of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, said yesterday on Israeli television that ‘when it comes to security, I’m 100 percent on Israel’s side.’ Speaking on Channel 10 following last week’s deadly attack that killed nine...
The blanket approach towards 10,300 Muslim prisoners by prison staff risks entrenching alienation and disaffection, creating young men who are ‘more likely to offend, or even embrace extremism’, according to the chief inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers. Dame Anne Ower’s...
Robert Fisk (pictured) comments in the Independent on Israel’s attack on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza last week. He writes: ‘Turkish family protests that their sons wanted to be martyrs – something which most Turkish family members might say if their relatives had been shot...
An investigation by The Guardian has revealed that surveillance cameras in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, two of Birmingham’s predominantly Muslim areas, have been ‘put up to monitor extremists.’ Saturday’s edition of The Guardian stated: ‘The cameras appeared at...
Andrew Gilligan wrote a piece in the Spectator last week on how the new coalition government must ‘reformulate‘ its ‘relationship with moderate Muslims – and marginalise the extremists for good.’ In last Wednesday’s article titled ‘We need a compact with...
It emerged yesterday that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a UN proposal for an international commission to probe last week’s attack on a flotilla of aid ships by Israeli commandos. Instead, Israeli officials will reportedly carry out their own inquiry. Activists...
A parliamentary Early Day Motion was tabled on Wednesday 2nd June 2010 by Richard Burden MP calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza and a full investigation into Israel’s attack on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. EDM 127 currently has 80 signatories. The...
Israel’s deadly attack on an international aid convoy that left nine people dead earlier this week formed part of BBC Question Time’s discussion yesterday. The panelists, who included the Science Minister David Willetts, the Labour leadership candidate Dianne Abbott MP, the political...
Seumas Milne in his column in today’s Guardian comments on the Gaza aid flotilla raided on Monday by Israeli commandos. He writes:‘It takes some nerve, and a special kind of detachment from reality, to claim that your soldiers were “lynched” by “terrorists” when they...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) issued a fact sheet yesterday on the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla. While not as specious as an earlier fact sheet issued by RICU when the Viva Palestina convoy was violently halted by the Egyptian border police...
