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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Palestine

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. You cannot appeal to the Israelis’ better nature, because they do not have one. You can, however, threaten them financially. When £10 billion of loan guarantees were withheld by George Bush senior, the Israelis scuttled off to Madrid. It is only sanctions and an …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Palestine

"It is important to know that that Government apartheid Bill is going to the Knesset on Wednesday of this week to start its passage to becoming law...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Palestine

"There was in fact an airport in Gaza—Yasser Arafat invited me to see it when it was opened—but tragically, for reasons my hon. Friend is describing so eloquently, it was never used...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2014
Iran (Nuclear Talks)

"Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that despite Iran’s vile internal policies—I hope that he has been making protests to the Government of Iran about the imprisonment of a British woman for seeking to watch a volleyball match—there is no evidence that it has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Oct 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Will the Government condemn in the strongest terms the current efforts by the Israeli Government and settler movements to divide the area of al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest places in the whole of the Muslim religion? Does the Foreign Secretary concur with the US State …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Oct 2014
Palestine and Israel

"There are 6 million Israeli Jews. There are 1,600,000 Palestinians in Israel, 2,700,000 on the west bank and 1,800,000 in Gaza. The Palestinians now outnumber the Israeli Jews, and that is without taking into account the 5 million Palestinians in refugee camps and in the diaspora. The big difference, of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is the hon. Gentleman aware that I warned Yitzhak Rabin, the former Israeli Prime Minister, that if he did not make peace with Fatah, he would be left with Hamas? He made the effort and was murdered for his pains by another Jew. Will the Minister make it clear that, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2014
Gaza

"Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that among the 173 innocent civilians slaughtered by the Israelis in Gaza was the inhabitant of a disabled people’s home that was hit by Israel, and that a hospital was also hit? Whatever one says in deploring the role of Hamas— I have told …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Israeli Teenagers (Abduction and Murder)

"I commend the Minister for his balanced response. May I ask him to send the heartfelt sympathy of, I am sure, every Member in the House—very much including myself—to the grief-stricken families of these abducted and murdered youths? What has been done to them has no conceivable justification of any …..."
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Written Question

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Thursday 8th May 2014

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 25 March 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Woronycz.

Answered by David Lidington

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) responded to the right hon. Member on 1 May 2014.