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Israel and Palestinian Talks

Proceeding contribution from Rupa Huq (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 5 July 2017. It occurred during Debate on Israel and Palestinian Talks.

I was on a cross-party delegation to the Holy Land in January. Does my right hon. Friend share the concern of some of the Palestinians we saw—Christians as well as Muslims—at the involvement and financial interests of some of Donald Trump’s acolytes in settlement

construction? In the popular imagination, settlements are maybe just a few shacks on a hill, but Ma'ale Adumim, which we saw, has 37,500 people in it—it looks like a pleasant American commuter town, with five swimming pools and all sorts of other things—and that makes the geographically viable Palestinian state that might one day come even more difficult.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
626 c1235 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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