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Nobel laureate Maguire: UN should suspend Israel membership
By Associated Press
Tags: gaza strip, hamas 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire said Thursday the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel's membership.

Maguire said Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of United Nations resolutions over the years.

Maguire won the 1976 peace prize for her work with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. She is visiting the Palestinian territories to protest Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. In October this year she arrived on a boat that sailed into the Gaza Strip carrying international protesters who wanted to bring attention to Israel's blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory.
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Israel virtually sealed off the territories after the Islamic militant Hamas took over there in 2007. The closure tightened two weeks ago in
response to Hamas rocket fire on Israeli border communities.

Maguire told a news conference Thursday that it's time for the international community to take action against Israel.

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      1.   Amazing 18:52  |  concerned 20/11/08
      2.   UN Membership 18:55  |  Marc 20/11/08
      3.   In Order To Do That, Ms. Maguire,... 18:57  |  Jeff Northridge 20/11/08
      4.   She isn`t worth a talkback 19:28  |  S 20/11/08
      5.   Where they pick them? 19:35  |  CM 20/11/08
      6.   Israel should suspend UN`s membership in Israel 19:50  |  Yacov 20/11/08
      7.   Maguire needs a chat with hamas 19:56  |  peter 20/11/08
      8.   This fixation against Israel? 20:03  |  Daniel 20/11/08
      9.   Mairead Maguire 20:06  |  rich 20/11/08
      10.   Treatment 20:07  |  Mr Ipp 20/11/08
      11.   So? Ghanian Nobel Laureate said "Whites invented AIDS in order 20:10  |  Absolute Sweden 20/11/08
      12.   Just more of the same 20:33  |  Arie 20/11/08
      13.   Deny a UN vote to the dictators 20:35  |  Niv 20/11/08
      14.   What about taking action against Gazan Terror 20:39  |  Dagma 20/11/08
      15.   US out of UN, UN out of US, its an abomination 20:39  |  David 20/11/08
      16.   Maguire 20:51  |  Yacoub 20/11/08
      17.   If Maguire lived in Gaza... 21:09  |  Seamus 20/11/08
      18.   UN = GM & FORD & CHRYSLER 22:05  |  Schmidlap 20/11/08
      19.   So did Maire think that the Irish couldn`t cut it too? 22:18  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 20/11/08
      20.   Israel always punished for its morality 22:26  |  Philippe 20/11/08
      21.   Absolute Sweden #8 Noble Laureate Arafat we invented AIDS 22:37  |  Gee 20/11/08
      22.   Gee. if UN suspends our membership... 22:50  |  bat yam 20/11/08
      23.   The pope has not succeeded by words 23:14  |  observer 20/11/08
      24.   Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize 00:40  |  judith 21/11/08
      25.   Maquire`s absurd fixation with Jews reminds me of anecdote... 00:47  |  bat yam 21/11/08
      26.   Agreed, Israel should be booted from the UN 00:47  |  Johan Odin 21/11/08
      27.   #8 and the rest... 01:31  |  Edithann 21/11/08
      28.   It should not `suspend` membership. 01:40  |  Mark Lincoln 21/11/08
      29.   Wonder of wonders 02:01  |  alan the real one 21/11/08
      30.   The Peace of Nobel laureate for Peace 02:31  |  Moshe 21/11/08
      31.   ODIN if Arab comrades had not sidelined the UN on day 1 03:14  |  PETER SM 21/11/08
      32.   And the sooner, the better... - 4th try 03:59  |  BBSNews 21/11/08
      33.   Just rememmber that ........ 04:30  |  Pepe 21/11/08
      34.   Not going to happen 05:23  |  Johnboy 21/11/08
      35.   Shmidlap - from Troonto 05:32  |  Mark Lincoln 21/11/08
      36.   There goes the neighbourhood 05:45  |  Morris Valentine 21/11/08
      37.   Vultures 06:18  |  Philippe 21/11/08
      38.   Vultures # 2 06:19  |  Philippe 21/11/08
      39.   Johnboy 06:23  |  Philippe 21/11/08
      40.   Mark Lincoln 06:25  |  Philippe 21/11/08
      41.   MORRIS V. Please do not let facts get in the way of bile. 07:01  |  PETER SM 21/11/08
      42.   How right you are Morris V! 11:25  |  S 21/11/08
      43.   # 26 Johan ok move the UN to Saudi Arabia Uganda 13:50  |  Petra 21/11/08
      44.   # 32 BBS lol you maggot 13:54  |  Petra 21/11/08
      45.   # 25 Good one! 13:55  |  Petra 21/11/08
      46.   # 31 Peter Would Australia allow the UN in? 13:58  |  Petra 21/11/08
      47.   # 24 Judith yes!!!!!! 14:06  |  Petra 21/11/08
      48.   Gaza 17:57  |  William 21/11/08
      49.   Maguire/Israel`s UN Defiance 23:04  |  Ram 21/11/08
      50.   petra 44 11:38  |  potobac 22/11/08
      51.   maguire who?. 18:25  |  leon 22/11/08
      52.   The Solution 04:42  |  Tim 25/11/08
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