Monday, 7 December 2009

Israel recognised by the PLO

As we come up to Hannukah on Saturday, I think that it is fitting that we should remember that 21 years ago today, Chairman Yasser Arafat, then leader of the PLO, recognised the right of Israel to exist.

Yet, yesterday there was a story about a series of cases over the past two years in which patients from Gaza referred for hospital treatment in Israel have been held without charge and pressed to become Israeli collaborators.

This is a clear violation of human rights and the Israeli authorities must take steps to cease such abuses of power.

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