Results 1-20 of 48 for terrorism speaker:Gerald Kaufman

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Gerald Kaufman: ...officer of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, who organised the blowing-up of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, in which 91 victims were killed, including four Jews. Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of Deir...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East (25 Jul 2006)

Gerald Kaufman: In rightly condemning the terrorism of Hezbollah, will my right hon. Friend bear it in mind that no party to this conflict has clean hands or occupies the moral high ground, that the father of the Israeli Foreign Minister, with whom my hon. Friend the Minister for the Middle East had talks, was a terrorist leader who organised the blowing up of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, to which the...

Israel (War against Terror) (4 Jul 2006)

Gerald Kaufman: ...that the explosion at the King David hotel can somehow be legitimised, he ought to pay attention to the fact that not only 200 non-Jews but 19 Jews were killed there, and if he goes on about terrorism, let him somehow justify more than 200 innocent Palestinians being murdered by Begin and Shamir in the village of Deir Yassin. There are no clean hands on either side of this conflict. I...

Israeli Security Wall (4 Nov 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...He said that Israel's policies in the occupied territories were "operating contrary to our strategic interests". He also said that the restrictions were increasing hatred of Israel and encouraging terrorism. He went on: "There is no hope, no expectations for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, nor in Bethlehem and Jericho". As for Bethlehem, the Israeli chief of staff said not that the...

Middle East (8 Sep 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Did not Mahmoud Abbas's position become unsustainable when he was asked to deliver, in terms of suppressing terrorism, what he was not physically capable of doing while the Israelis are provoking terrorism by targeted assassination and by building the wall? Does he agree that there is no chance whatever for middle eastern peace as long as the Israeli Government are allowed to do whatever they...

Middle East (28 Apr 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Recollecting that the peace efforts of Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak were destroyed by deliberate acts of terrorism carried out by Palestinian terrorist groups, and taking into account the fact that those terrorist groups can be relied on to carry out such acts in order to destroy this peace process, will my right hon. Friend give the House an assurance that when such acts take place—as...

Iraq (25 Feb 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...of a peace process in the middle east between the Israelis and the Palestinians? In light of the daily almost casual slaughter of Palestinians by Israelis, and of the threat to the Israelis from terrorism, will my right hon. Friend give an undertaking that, regardless of the outcome of this crucial confrontation with Iraq, he will continue to ensure that this Government will yield to no...

Greater Manchester Police Incident (15 Jan 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...do so will win scorn rather than support. I agree with what the hon. Member for Macclesfield and my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley said, but this terrible event demonstrates that terrorism knows no frontiers inside the country or outside it, and that the measures that we are taking against terrorism are justified.

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...pursuit of United Nations Security Council policy? Also in his speech to the TUC, my right hon. Friend said "We must restart the Middle East peace process. We must work with all concerned" so that terrorism could end, and the Palestinians have their rights. Can he explain—if not today, as soon as possible—what action he and the Government will take to restart and advance the...

G8 Summit (1 Jul 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...of dismantling Israeli shanty town settlements leaves in place 145 settlements that violate international law. The decent Jewish leadership that took over from the British was able to suppress the terrorism of Begin and Shamir only when it had the integrity of an Israeli state to defend. Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the genuine movement towards suppressing the evil terrorism...

The Middle East (16 Apr 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: .... In any case, Sharon has made it impossible for the Americans to take action against Iraq. If they did, the whole Muslim world would be united against the United States, the coalition against terrorism would disintegrate, and western economies could suffer a disaster comparable to the oil shock of 1973. It is time for the United States to take action. Sharon must make a full withdrawal...

Middle East (5 Dec 2001)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...my right hon. Friend bear it in mind that the Labour party members of the Israeli Cabinet walked out of the Cabinet meeting that decided that the Palestinian Authority was an entity that supports terrorism and must be dealt with accordingly? Will he bear it in mind that Yossi Beilin, the ex-Labour Minister who was the architect of the Oslo accord, wrote yesterday in the Israeli newspaper...

International Terrorism (4 Oct 2001)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...the Prime Minister two days ago at the Labour party conference. However, I believe that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made an error regarding what appeared to be a comparison of the terrorism that is taking place now in the middle east with that which brought about the destruction of the World Trade Centre. I believe that there is a very great difference. All terrorism, in any...

Iraq (No-fly Zones) (26 Feb 2001)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...within international law, Saddam Hussein would by now be in occupation of at least parts of Saudi Arabia, parts of Iran and other parts of the middle east? When Members talk about "international terrorism", it is not the Government and our United States ally who are responsible for such terrorism, but a killer who has no hesitation in killing his own people in vast numbers. It is about...

Debate on the Address: First Day (14 May 1997)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...I received a telephone call on Monday afternoon. A portentously official-sounding voice said, in ominous tones, "The Government Chief Whip would like to speak to you." I was immediately struck with terror that I had violated the parliamentary Labour party's new and extremely stringent code of discipline. My mind went back guiltily to a general election campaign meeting last month during...

Prevention of Terrorism (10 Mar 1993)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) talked about the efficacy of detention. Is my hon. Friend aware that, in the past 19 years, 7,192 people have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, of whom precisely six have been convicted of crimes and given sentences of more than five years? Is he further aware that four of those were the Maguire family, who were found to have...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: India (5 Feb 1992)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions—Hindu and Muslim. Having seen the devastation in that beautiful valley that has resulted from the conflict, and having seen the impact of terrorism, which I deplore both there and here, may I say to the Secretary of State that while, of course, the matter must first be decided between India and Pakistan, no settlement can be...

Lockerbie (14 Nov 1991)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...with international law. For Libya can be received back into the world community only when it is clear beyond doubt that it is no longer involved in instigating, assisting and carrying out acts of terrorism that sicken the civilised world.

Middle East (28 Nov 1990)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...the right hon. Gentleman for responding to my request for a statement. We regard the decision to resume diplomatic relations with Syria as logical. We welcome Syria's commitment to reject acts of terrorism and look to Syria to fulfil that commitment not simply in words but, emphatically, in action. When I visited Syria last July, I received assurances from the Vice-President and Foreign...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence (24 Nov 1989)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...African doctrine of common purpose. As I saw for myself earlier this year in South Africa, that country is in the most literal sense of the term a police state. The apparatus of repression and terror is present in South Africa for one purpose only—to maintain the economic supremacy of the whites, which has been attained by exploitation and suppression of the majority of the...