British parliamentarians call for ‘robust response’ over Israel’s annexation threat


September 17, 2019
JFJFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-election threat to annex Jordan Valley provoked outrage internationally

A Palestinian demonstrating against the expropriation of Palestinian land, in the village of Kafr Malik

Middle East Eye reports:

A group of British parliamentarians have written to the UK government urging them to “respond robustly” to Israel’s threat to annex the Jordan Valley.

108 MPs from a range of political parties signed the letter, sent on Friday, which said there must be “more than just words of disapproval” in the response from the UK and Europe to the promise made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally annex the West Bank territory seized by Israel in the 1967 war.

“The response of the international community must act as a deterrent to actions which would smash the two-state solution — the internationally agreed parameter for resolving this conflict,” read the letter.  “In view of the imminence of the Israeli election, the UK must make this strong position public without delay.”

The letter warned the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that allowing the annexation would “undermine the long-standing principle of the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory through war.”

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