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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 4 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Michael Fabricant. The answering member was Ian McCartney.

Israel (War against Terror)

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on Israel and the war against terror

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c203-26WH 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c219WH (Link to this contribution) I am not taking further interventions. We have only a short time. We have only to look at the past ...
Jane Kennedy | 448 c219WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me time to intervene, but will he not accept that it ...
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Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c219-20WH (Link to this contribution) We can insist on negotiation because that is the only way in which we can achieve a resolution, alth...
Keith Simpson | 448 c220-2WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) on securing ...
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c222WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Abba Eban, the former Israeli Foreign Minister with whom I worked c...
Keith Simpson | 448 c222WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I understand that, and it is true unless one is ultimately faced with a war of annihilation and...
Ian McCartney | 448 c222-4WH (Link to this contribution) Good afternoon, Mr. Chope. The last time we were here together was six years ago, when you initiated...
David Gauke | 448 c219WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Richard Burden | 448 c224WH (Link to this contribution) I know that the Minister has to get through his 12 points, so I shall be as brief as possible. On hi...
Ian McCartney | 448 c224-6WH (Link to this contribution) I fully take on board what my hon. Friend says, and I shall take the matter up as he requested. Tod...
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c209-10WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) on securing this debate. However, w...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c207-9WH (Link to this contribution) I take issue with the hon. Gentleman when he talks about children being assassinated; that implies t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 448 c207WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that in his discourse he should say something about Israel’s brea...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c207WH (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, whom I have not yet let intervene.
Michael Fabricant | 448 c206-7WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. In this debate, I am talking about things that have actual...
David Gauke | 448 c205-6WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. On Hezbollah, is he aware of the view held by...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c205WH (Link to this contribution) In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Reigate, I said that all terrorism is wrong. However, my ...
Crispin Blunt | 448 c203WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. He is setting the historical context for this debate...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c204-5WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. Indeed, my father was in the British Army in the middle ...
Richard Burden | 448 c205WH (Link to this contribution) I am still struggling a little with the hon. Gentleman’s definition of terrorism. I am sure that hon...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c203WH (Link to this contribution) Almost to the day, 12 months ago, Britain suffered its first ever suicide bombing attack. In one day...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c203WH (Link to this contribution) I want to get a little further into the debate before giving way. This debate is not only about Isr...
Iain Wright | 448 c217WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The international community must continue to use its influence to ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 448 c217WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give us an idea of what he thinks Israel’s borders are, and what position Israel...
Iain Wright | 448 c217WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it is for me to say what Israel’s borders should be. I think that there is conse...
Brooks Newmark | 448 c217WH (Link to this contribution) Is not the core of the problem the fact that today, on the road map that the right hon. Member for M...
Iain Wright | 448 c217-8WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. In the debate that I secured in Westminster Hall a couple of weeks ago on the prospects for...
Sion Simon | 448 c214WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman like to speculate on this issue in the context of what he has been saying a...
Iain Wright | 448 c215-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) for securing this important and timely deb...
Crispin Blunt | 448 c216WH (Link to this contribution) As far as I am aware, Syria is fully signed up to the Arab League position and the Arab League suppo...
David Burrowes | 448 c214-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. It is important to put these issues in the proper context, whic...
Speaker | 448 c215WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope to start the winding-up speeches at 12 o’clock.
Speaker | 448 c217WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May we have short interventions now?
Iain Wright | 448 c216WH (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with the hon. Gentleman’s comments, but the Hamas political leadership outside the Pal...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c216-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying the hon. Gentleman’s contribution, but in the context of the extraordinary interventio...
David Burrowes | 448 c212-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) on securing this debate. ...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c210WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c210-1WH (Link to this contribution) Let me proceed a little. The hon. Gentleman rightly condemns Hamas, which is a terrorist organisati...
Brooks Newmark | 448 c211WH (Link to this contribution) I have a brief question for the right hon. Gentleman. He has correctly pointed out that Hamas was el...
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c211WH (Link to this contribution) Of course that is wrong, but equally wrong is the President of the United States kidnapping people a...
Michael Fabricant | 448 c211WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has quoted from Ha’aretz in Israel, where people are quite free, but I shou...
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c211-2WH (Link to this contribution) The answer is not clearly no. However, it is of course a bit difficult to publish newspapers in the ...
Richard Burden | 448 c212WH (Link to this contribution) Following on from the intervention by the hon. Member for Lichfield, I wonder whether my right hon. ...
Gerald Kaufman | 448 c212WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a great expert on such issues and makes a valid point. I do not claim for one seco...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c218-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) on securing the debate, which is pa...
Brooks Newmark | 448 c219WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman still has not answered the question that I posed earlier: how can Israel do anyth...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c219WH (Link to this contribution) Memories are very short. Fatah never used to recognise the state of Israel, but, eventually, it was ...
Subjects
Terrorism Israel Islam Palestine Iran Middle East Hezbollah Hamas al Qaeda Islamic Jihad
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