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Middle East

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

450 c71-94WH 

Session

2005-06

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Andrew Turner | 450 c74-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to accept that, too. I am not trying to express the view that one side are the goodies...

Louise Ellman | 450 c74WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman like to remind the Chamber that the Israelis correctly withdrew from Gaza i...

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Andrew Turner | 450 c74WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be corrected.

Phyllis Starkey | 450 c74WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman accept that the chronology was the opposite? The attack on the beach happen...

Andrew Turner | 450 c71-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Weir, and it is a pleasure to welcome the Minister...

Andrew Turner | 450 c73WH (Link to this contribution) Of course I recognise that. In exactly the same way, I felt that about Sinn Fein. The fact is that ...

Louise Ellman | 450 c73WH (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman accept that a major obstacle is the explicit refusal of the Hamas-led Gover...

Andrew Turner | 450 c73WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the way in which my hon. Friend put that. He listed a range of things said by the ...

James Clappison | 450 c73WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a reasonable and well-informed case, but does not the approach to Hamas inv...

Andrew Turner | 450 c73-4WH (Link to this contribution) Of course I recognise that. I am asking what is so different; what entitles us to disregard the demo...

Lee Scott | 450 c73WH (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree that there is a subtle difference between not recognising the United King...

Andrew Turner | 450 c74WH (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey).

Crispin Blunt | 450 c85-6WH (Link to this contribution) I commend the speech of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) and the enormous...

Jeremy Browne | 450 c87-8WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to make the first of the winding-up speeches, Mr. Weir. I start by congratu...

Jane Kennedy | 450 c84WH (Link to this contribution) The whole international community is asking Hamas to recognise Israel; it is a United Nations reques...

Richard Burden | 450 c84-5WH (Link to this contribution) The international community is saying that it wants Hamas to recognise Israel. I would like Hamas to...

Lee Scott | 450 c80-1WH (Link to this contribution) If the context and the text of what the Iranian Prime Minister said is read, it referred to the peop...

Richard Burden | 450 c81-4WH (Link to this contribution) I too was able to spend a little time in Israel and Palestine in September. I shall speak on three s...

Lee Scott | 450 c80WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief and discuss just four or five points. First, as to our troops in Afghanistan and Ir...

Crispin Blunt | 450 c80WH (Link to this contribution) I want to pose my hon. Friend a question about what he called the destruction of the state of Israel...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c79WH (Link to this contribution) Would not my right hon. Friend also consider the necessity of de-escalating the level of armament in...

Jane Kennedy | 450 c79WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to accept that there is that concern. We need not only an understanding of why Israel fee...

Jane Kennedy | 450 c77WH (Link to this contribution) Of course. I should remember, having worked with the hon. Gentleman in Northern Ireland. I hope, how...

Crispin Blunt | 450 c77WH (Link to this contribution) The perception in Lebanon is that the Prime Minister is responsible, and the international community...

Jane Kennedy | 450 c77-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am very sorry and disappointed to hear the hon. Gentleman come out with that point of view. He is ...

Richard Burden | 450 c78WH (Link to this contribution) If I am able to catch your eye later, Mr. Weir, I might expand on this point, but is my right hon. F...

Andrew Turner | 450 c76WH (Link to this contribution) As someone once said, to be a British citizen is to win first prize in the lottery of life, and cert...

Speaker | 450 c76WH (Link to this contribution) Order. A large number of hon. Members want to take part in the debate, so I appeal for brevity.

Jane Kennedy | 450 c77WH (Link to this contribution) I will seek to be succinct, but I must respond to one or two of the comments that have been made. I ...

Crispin Blunt | 450 c77WH (Link to this contribution) Reigate.

Kerry McCarthy | 450 c76WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about people accepting UK citizenship, as though those responsible for the ...

Jane Kennedy | 450 c78-9WH (Link to this contribution) I do not have the exact statistics month by month, but I am sure that they will be available. None t...

Andrew Turner | 450 c75WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. In a similar way I condemn the Palestinians and their supporters fo...

Crispin Blunt | 450 c75WH (Link to this contribution) I went to Lebanon two weeks ago and I have to say that my hon. Friend’s central thesis, which is tha...

Andrew Turner | 450 c75WH (Link to this contribution) What a stupid intervention, if I may say so. Of course I am not comparing it to the holocaust. If th...

Louise Ellman | 450 c75WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman seriously comparing Israel’s defending itself to the genocide of the holocaust...

James Clappison | 450 c76WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for being so patient in giving way twice. Before he moves off the po...

Andrew Turner | 450 c76WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have heard what my hon. Friend has said, so I shall not prolong my speech. I was h...

Kim Howells | 450 c92-3WH (Link to this contribution) That is a good rhetorical question and I am sure that my hon. Friend knows what answer I shall give:...

Jeremy Corbyn | 450 c93WH (Link to this contribution) In that context, does the Minister not think that one should at least respect the electoral wishes o...

Kim Howells | 450 c93WH (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. I do not think that Members of Parliament should be arrested a...

Crispin Blunt | 450 c94WH (Link to this contribution) Mr. Ad-Dardari.

Kim Howells | 450 c94WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that Syria realises that its future does not lie with the present regime in Iran, which is no...

Speaker | 450 c94WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I must bring this debate to an end.

Phyllis Starkey | 450 c92WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister address how our current policies and those of the international community towards ...

Baroness Keeley | 450 c92WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentions children. Will he discuss with the Minister for Women and Equality the discuss...

Kim Howells | 450 c92WH (Link to this contribution) That is an enormously important issue. I was in Nepal last week, where I saw the effects that a smal...

Keith Simpson | 450 c89-90WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me; I have only a limited amount of time. There is no doubt...

Phyllis Starkey | 450 c90WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Simpson | 450 c89WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Turner) on securing this broad-brush...

Keith Simpson | 450 c91WH (Link to this contribution) Do you keep a diary?

Kim Howells | 450 c91-2WH (Link to this contribution) I do not have time to keep a diary, but I should have done. I have enjoyed this morning’s debate. T...

Keith Simpson | 450 c90-1WH (Link to this contribution) No; I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me, but I have only a couple of minutes left. Fatah and ...

Kim Howells | 450 c91WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Turner) for initiating this debate. I say to my...

Subjects

Armed forces Armed conflict Deployment Iraq Terrorism Afghanistan Israel Islam Palestine Middle East Lebanon Hamas

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