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UK's Liberal Democrats back Israel arms ban, ousting Hamas and proscribing IRGC (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics

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Britain’s Liberal Democrat party passed a motion in favour of suspending arms exports to Israel and backing an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Monday at its annual conference in Brighton.

The motion, which was tabled by British-Palestinian MP Layla Moran, passed with an overwhelming majority and also called for Hamas to be ousted from Gaza "through diplomacy".

It also recognised Iran as an “existential threat” to western democracies and asked for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

Moran said she had worked with both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups to formulate the motion, which may explain its mixture of positions.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

called for Hamas to be ousted from Gaza “through diplomacy”

How do they envision this could happen?

[–] Mrkawfee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Once Palestinians get their country back Hamas won't have a reason to exist.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this a joke?

[–] Mrkawfee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is what a joke?

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You think Hamas will cease to exist if there's some kind of two-state solution?

[–] Mrkawfee 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think a two state solution is realistic. It was always a fiction to perpetuate the occupation by creating a puppet regime i.e. the Palestinian Authority who could be outsourced the job of policing the natives while Israel continued building settlements in the West Bank. The solution is one state with equal rights for everyone and the end of Zionism as an ideology , and its necessary corollaries: apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

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