LBC Debate: Israel retaliates to UK sanctions
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The Israeli government has “turned a blind eye” to the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in the West Bank by “settler terrorists”, Ed Miliband told the House of Commons today as he announced a major shift in the Government's stance. The Israeli government has retaliated by announcing plans to close the UK's consulate in Jerusalem after Ed Miliband unveiled sanctions on goods produced in the occupied West Bank. The foreign secretary told MPs that the government's objection was "not with the people of Israel, with whom the UK has unshakeable bonds". He said the argument was "with the conduct of its government". Miliband went on to read out the UN's definition of ethnic cleansing, as a "a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas". As the news breaks, Tom Swarbrick butts heads with Israeli spokesman David Mencer over consequenti
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