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Former UK envoy calls for arms embargo against Israel

Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:23:47 PM, IRNA

London: Former British ambassador Lord Wright Thursday called for an EU arms embargo to be imposed against Israel, warning that its refusal to freeze illegal settlement activities is “genuine threat” to peace.

“This flagrant disregard of President Obama's efforts to encourage peace talks is now posing a genuine threat to hopes for a two-nation peace settlement,” Wright said.

The refusal is “an ultimate threat not only to the creation of a Palestinian state, but to the very future of Israel itself,” the 79-year old former ambassador to Syria and Saudi Arabia said.

Foreign Secretary William Hague has already called on the Israeli regime to extend its partial freeze on illegal settlement and extend it to East Jerusalem, while expressing concern that its defiance could jeopardise peace negotiations.

Wright, who was also former head of the Middle East Department at the Foreign Office, said that Netanyahu's government had even failed to honour the previous 'moratorium' on illegal settlement activity while it was in place .

“According to the Israeli organisation Peace Now, up to 600 new housing units, as of June this year, had been started while the moratorium was supposedly in place, in addition to 2,000 units under construction before the moratorium started,” he said.

In an article for expolix.com Thursday, the former ambassador referred to commentators arguing that “given the failure of the United States government to impose a genuine freeze on illegal settlement activity, it is time for Europe to make a move.”

“I propose to remind the coalition that a previous Conservative administration imposed a block on British arms sales to Israel after its invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and to suggest that we should now consider with our European partners similar action on an EU-wide basis,” he said.

This, he said, should be pending “an effective moratorium on illegal settlement activity, and a start to the removal of settlers from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”

 

 

 

 

 

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