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Article: 'Free Yourselves from the Shackles of Israeli Pressure', the Man Said.
- Article from:
- The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2009
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By Stuart Littlewood
When the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, interviewed Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal last week he was immediately attacked by Britain's Foreign Office Minister, Ivan Lewis.
Lewis said: 'It is particularly regrettable that he [Livingstone] learned the wrong lessons from history by handing a propaganda coup to the leader of a terrorist organisation. Hamas has not only breached international law by firing rockets at civilian populations in Israel but continues to violate the human rights of Palestinians in Gaza'.
Perhaps they aren't paying attention at the Foreign Office. The only people breaching international law in the ...