Persons? MPs!
Here:
MPs urge ministers to open Middle East peace talks with Hamas moderates [sic!?]
The government is facing fresh calls today from MPs to open contacts with the militant Palestinian Hamas movement in an attempt to inject new momentum into the Middle East peace process.
Commons foreign affairs committee says policy of non-engagement is achieving little
It reiterated its call of two years ago for the government to "urgently" consider ways of engaging politically with "moderate elements" within the group.
The government refuses to talk to Hamas until it accepts the principles of the international Quartet - the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia - of non-violence and acceptance of the existence of the state of Israel.
"There continues to be few signs that the current policy of non-engagement is achieving the Quartet's stated objectives," the committee said.
"We further conclude that the credible peace process for which the Quartet hopes, as part of its strategy for undercutting Hamas, is likely to be difficult to achieve without greater co-operation from Hamas itself. We are concerned that the Quartet is continuing to fail to provide Hamas with greater incentives to change its position."
Well, read this report carefully:
The last two men imprisoned for Provisional I.R.A. offenses were released from prison on Wednesday...Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh, walked free from Ireland’s Castlerea prison more than 10 years after they were convicted in the killing by the Irish Republican Army of an Irish policeman guarding a cash delivery van.
...Britain and Ireland continue to incarcerate more than three dozen members of dissident I.R.A. groups opposed to the Provisionals’ 2005 decisions to renounce violence and disarm
So, on the one hand, parliamentarians are demanding in London that their government deal with terrorists ("moderate" my [Michael] foot) but that same government is, on the other hand, presumably with the agreement, tacit or otherwise, of those MPs, most definitely not dealing with their own local terrorists for the reasons Israel won't deal with Hamas and why the British government shouldn't deal with them either.
Such hypocrisy.
P.S.
Check this on the goings-on in the US.
More bad ideas here.
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I like your Blog on more Brit hypocrisy and dealing with Hamas.
I wish I knew how to do it, and perhaps you can advise me, but the British Government really needs to be told that the best and the easiest way to stop British soldiers being killed in Afghanistan, as is at present happening every single day, would be for the British Government to call an immediate (and unilateral of course) cease fire and start
immediate and direct "peace" talks with Taleban.
No pre-conditions of course and Taleban would have to be free and have the right to continue killing British soldiers until a proper peace is achieved. After that, they should start talks with Hamas, but naturally no Israelis would be allowed to participate, not even as observers, as that would offend the
susceptibilities of he Moslems.
Michael
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