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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Responses

I have been following the various comments but I have not had time to respond.

It was useful to hear ideas about policy options (prisoners and job seekers allowance). I will try and respond in due course but right now I am seriously behind on a number of tasks - so no rash promises! I have only just got computerised at the House of Lords and that will help.

Thanks for the grammar checks - there were failing schools in the 1940's/50's too! I am a living example of one. I still have a report which says "Clive could make better use of his limited abilities if only he would try a little harder".

Could have been true of course!

Hi Clive,

'"Clive could make better use of his limited abilities if only he would try a little harder".'

I think they had a rubber stamp with this engraved on it ;-)

Regs, Andy

Clive,

Referring to the Iranian President's publically stated desire to see Israel "wiped from the map", your friend Tony exclaimed today that he had "never come across" such comments before. Perhaps you could pass the following onto him so that he has no such excuse in the future.

"We must expel Arabs and take their places."
-- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people" -- Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"-- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."-- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the 'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25, 1982

"(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." -- Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force...."
-- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000.--

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
--Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.--

S.

I wish you the best on your new adventure and hope your maiden speech went well. As a Yank, it's odd to read that your office conditions must be privately subsidized by yourself. Good luck!

BBC news today says many survivors of the 8 Oct earthquake which hit Pakistan, India and Afghanistan remain in desperate need of help -- official death toll stands at more than 74,000 -- many of the 3 million estimated homeless are in danger from the approaching winter weather, the UN warns today. As these people urgently need help and heating, it is so difficult to understand why the UN has only been given $135m of the $550m it needs or why overflow donations for the tsunami were not diverted without delay.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4409774.stm

All of us who are comfy and warm right now with a roof over our head can help by donating whatever we can afford. DEC unites the leading independent humanitarian agencies in the UK.
http://www.dec.org.uk/

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