Terror In Gaza

EDM number 423 in 2008-09, proposed by Mark Durkan on 13/01/2009.
Categorised under the topics of International politics and government and Middle East.

That this House deplores the concentration of violence, degradation and hardship suffered by the Palestinian people; condemns terrorist attacks on Israelis by Hamas or other armed factions; recognises that the essence of terrorism is to attack civilians and civil infrastructure to achieve or impose political ends; condemns, unequivocally, the Israeli Defence Force's onslaught of terror in Gaza; rejects the pretence of military equivalence between the ruthless firepower unleashed by Israel in Gaza and the deplorable rockets fired by Hamas or others against Israeli people; refutes the false argument that the high-tech, high-death toll terror tactics deployed by Israel against the people of Gaza are morally superior or ethically different to the crude weapons employed by Hamas and others; and regrets the failure of the Government and the international community to unequivocally condemn the outrageous actions of Israel's government or threaten any sanction in response to escalating humanitarian transgressions, flagrant breaches of international law, continuous flouting of UN resolutions and possible war crimes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.