Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
The West Bank is already annexed
Don’t get sucked in by Israel’s bizarre definitions: whether it officially grabs more Arab land or not, it is – and always has been – a fully fledged colonial nation, rather than an ‘occupying power’
WEDNESDAY July 1 was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30 per cent of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley.
This date, however, came and went and annexation was never actualised.
“I don’t know if there will be a declaration of sovereignty today,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, with reference to the self-imposed deadline declared earlier by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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