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Removing Unlawful Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories: Time to Act

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Category: Occupation of Palestine and the Law

The following Public Statement was issued by Amnesty International on 23rd March 2005.

I like its lack of equivocation and its emphasis on law. I recall with anger that I wrote to my MP when we started bombing the poorest in Aghanistan. I said that the world's priority should be to insert a peace keeping force in Palestine composed of Scandinavian, South African troops etc given that UK troops were then compromised. A judicial response to 9/11 was the only lawful one. The support of the Security Council was neither here nor there. Instead, we have rained terror on the heads of countless innocent heads. All this has been done with the overwhelming support of MPs of the three main parties. They are complicit in these crimes against humanity and the peace (as per the Nuremberg rules).

The only bit which always makes me wince is "Occupation for 38 yrs". Many Palestinians and others do not see it like that of course.

Letter To Mr Younger-Ross, MP - 3rd December, 2001

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Category: Correspondence With Politicians

3rd December, 2001

Dear Mr Younger-Ross,

You will share with me great sadness and apprehension about the escalating terror in Palestine. You might now agree that I was right in pleading against the bombing of Afghanistan and instead for the insertion of a peacekeeping force in Palestine, however difficult that might have been. I have been pleased to see that Menzies Campbell has spoken against extending the bombing war to other countries, particularly to Iraq, but it is very regrettable that the Liberal Democrats did not come out against the bombing of Afghanistan because of some ill-placed sense of so-called patriotism.

Letter To Mr Younger-Ross, MP - 5th October, 2001

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Category: Correspondence With Politicians

5th October, 2001

Dear Mr Younger-Ross,

I have phoned your office three times urging that Parliament be recalled quickly and permanently. On the last occasion (Monday 1st October) I spoke for the second time to Miss Becky Howard, your secretary. I told her that this government had steadily eroded the power of our Parliament and the failure to recall it properly is the last straw. I said that I had never felt so powerless and disenfranchised.

She replied, and of course I paraphrase ...

Gross Bias in Presentation of Alleged Uranium Enrichment in Iran

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Category: Complaints Regarding BBC Bias
The following Email exchange with Gavin Allen, regarding the BBC's presentation of alleged uranium enrichment in Iran, took place between November 2004 and February 2005:

War on Terrorism

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Category: Blair
I approach my analysis of this both as a doctor and an orthopaedic surgeon. I am helped in having been trained at St Mary’s with young people from other countries and having had many young doctors helping me in the beleaguered NHS who came here to train from all parts of the world including the Middle East and Afghanistan. I know the reality of death and torn bodies from dealing at first hand with the casualties of the dominant motor vehicle. My training and mentality help me get to the nub of a problem. Even-handedness drives me to write this piece.

It may be fruitful to treat terrorism as we do a disease process: