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Hague urged to account for UK's 'sordid' involvement in Palestine
London, Jan 30, IRNA – The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is calling on Foreign Secretary William Hague to account for the “shocking insight” into Britain’s role in the so-called Middle East peace process.
Supporters and peace activists are also being urged to email Hague to demand that he explains why MI6 was involved in planning secret security operations as well as training personnel to carry out detention and torture of opponents of the Palestinian Authority.
The PSC referred to Britain’s involvement in the ‘peace process’ as “sordid” following revelations that its intelligence service played a central role in secret plans to weaken Hamas before the Islamic party won elections to the Palestinian Authority in 2006.
Extracts of confidential documents, obtained by al-Jazeera and verified by the Guardian, include detailed proposals for a security taskforce based on the UK's 'trusted' Palestinian Authority contacts, with 'direct lines' to Israel intelligence.
The proposals included a number of ways of 'degrading the capabilities of rejectionists', naming Hamas, PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the al-Aqsa Brigades.
Following the disclosure, former Liberal Democrat shadow minister Baroness Jenny Tonge has repeated her call to include Hamas in Middle East negotiations following leaks that the peace process has been a ‘sham’ for the past 20 years.
“It is imperative that the International Community now include Hamas in the process, as the only faction that can be trusted by the Palestinian people,” Tonge told IRNA.
The cache of thousands of papers show Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem among a string of concessions, including of the rights of refugees to return.
The PSC also accused Israel of “defending the indefensible” following its report on trying to exonerate its attack and killing of nine activists onboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters last May.
“Israel's account is full of lies: If they had nothing to hide they would have given back evidence taken from those on board,” it said.
“No whitewash of an enquiry can deny the reality. For those of us on the boat that day, and for millions across the world, our resolve has been strengthened - we will free Gaza, we will free Palestine,' said PSC director Sarah Colborne, who travelled with the flotilla.
Supporters and peace activists are also being urged to email Hague to demand that he explains why MI6 was involved in planning secret security operations as well as training personnel to carry out detention and torture of opponents of the Palestinian Authority.
The PSC referred to Britain’s involvement in the ‘peace process’ as “sordid” following revelations that its intelligence service played a central role in secret plans to weaken Hamas before the Islamic party won elections to the Palestinian Authority in 2006.
Extracts of confidential documents, obtained by al-Jazeera and verified by the Guardian, include detailed proposals for a security taskforce based on the UK's 'trusted' Palestinian Authority contacts, with 'direct lines' to Israel intelligence.
The proposals included a number of ways of 'degrading the capabilities of rejectionists', naming Hamas, PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the al-Aqsa Brigades.
Following the disclosure, former Liberal Democrat shadow minister Baroness Jenny Tonge has repeated her call to include Hamas in Middle East negotiations following leaks that the peace process has been a ‘sham’ for the past 20 years.
“It is imperative that the International Community now include Hamas in the process, as the only faction that can be trusted by the Palestinian people,” Tonge told IRNA.
The cache of thousands of papers show Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem among a string of concessions, including of the rights of refugees to return.
The PSC also accused Israel of “defending the indefensible” following its report on trying to exonerate its attack and killing of nine activists onboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters last May.
“Israel's account is full of lies: If they had nothing to hide they would have given back evidence taken from those on board,” it said.
“No whitewash of an enquiry can deny the reality. For those of us on the boat that day, and for millions across the world, our resolve has been strengthened - we will free Gaza, we will free Palestine,' said PSC director Sarah Colborne, who travelled with the flotilla.
