1. Congratulations
to the British parliament for voting (274 against 12) in favour of a motion recognising
a Palestinian State. The debate – as parliamentary debates often go – was not very
impressive, the outcome, however, is positive.
The motion
is not binding on the British government and may therefore just be
symbolic - but symbolic acts, with the right luck, can
be powerful too.
2. Shame on
the Israeli Labour Party that tried to use its – evidently non-existent –
influence over members of the British Labour party in a last minute hysterical
attempt to block the vote. Leading the opposition means not acting like a government poodle. Try to remember that Mr. Herzog!
It occurs to me that accordingt o the figures you give only 286 members of Parliament took part in the vote, almost all of them in favour of a Palestine. That begs the question: Where were the other 364 members of Parliament?
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Could it be that they feared for their lives? Perhaps being axed down or beheaded if they didn`t vote the "right" way?
Or was it merely fear that they might loose the muslim vote in the next election?