
A group of former European ministers have acknowledged that Israel's policies and practices against the Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid and called on the international community to hold the Occupation State to account. "We must acknowledge that Israel's policies against Palestinians amount to the crime of apartheid," said the group in a letter published in the French daily Le Monde. The former ministers include Danish politician Mogens Lykketoft;* Finnish politician Erkki Sakari Tuomioja; Slovenian lawmaker Ivo Vajgl; Hubert Védrine, a French Socialist politician and member of the British House of Lords Baroness Sayeeda Hussain Warsi. "We see no alternative but to acknowledge that Israel's policies and practices against the Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and […]
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