Source: The Middle East Monitor:
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has added his support to growing calls for an arms embargo on Israel, as the impact of the attack on Gaza continues to be felt around Westminster.
In a statement issued late Tuesday by the Liberal Democrats, the leadership of the government’s junior coalition partner urged a suspension of arms exports to Israel.
Affirming the concerns raised by Sayeeda Warsi, who resigned her position as Foreign Office minister Tuesday over Gaza policy, Nick Clegg said the Israeli military had “overstepped the mark” and cited the “outrageous spectacle” of UN schools “being hit by Israeli military action”.
Clegg revealed that he is “working with [Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills] Vince Cable” to suspend arms export licenses to Israel, “pending a wider review of whether they should be revoked more permanently in the long run”.
Categories: Arab World, Europe and Australia, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UK
WORLD AROUND VOICES FOR GAZA:
London Theater backs out of hosting Jewish film festival over Israeli embassy funding
The Tricycle Theatre explicitly linked its decision over the UK Jewish Film Festival to the Israel-Gaza war; critics charge anti-Semitism.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.609143
Nobel laureates: Arms Embargo of Israel
http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/43524-arms-embargo.html
Israel: International anger mounts
http://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2014/1650/10-israel-international-anger.html
– ‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’: Global anger grows as 15,000 protestors mass outside
Israel’s London embassy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698331/In-thousands-millions-Palestinians-Global-anger-grows-15-000-protestors-mass-outside-Israels-London-embassy.html
– Tens of thousands take to streets worldwide in support of Palestinians
http://rt.com/news/179224-gaza-march-demonstration-rally/
– Israel must be held criminally accountable for Gaza war crimes – Human Rights Watch
http://rt.com/op-edge/178228-israel-war-crimes-gaza/
– The world heeds the call of Palestinians in Gaza for pressure on Israel
http://palsolidarity.org/2014/08/press-release-the-world-heeds-the-call-of-palestinians-in-gaza-for-pressure-on-israel/
– George Soros freed his fund from its Israeli assets.
– In the UK, commercial chains such as John Lewis and Tesco, boycotted Israeli goods.
– The Nobel Prize-winning Amnesty International, asked the US to stop sending fuel for Israeli tanks.
– The former director of Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, joined the boycott of the Israeli Jews.
– Lawrence Weschler, for twenty years a writer for The New Yorker weekly magazine, compared Gaza to Dachau and Theresienstadt.
Reference:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15491#.U-dTWGPmLIU
– UK activists shut down Israeli arms factory
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/activists-israeli-factory.html