British MP: Israel and Egypt's blockade of Gaza is 'evil'

Does that mean that efforts to starve 1.5 million people and the conduct of possibly the worst human rights violations taking place in the world today is not evil? How about what he said, is that important?

Anyone who knows anything about British politics knows that this MP says things like this all the time. His problem is that although he is Jewish by origin he is Member of Parliament for a strongly Islamic constituency so he follows the Islamist propaganda line on all subjects, not just Israel. As the English say, he knows which side his bread is buttered on. For him to insult Israel is as common as for a dog to bark so it is not a news item. A real news item would be if he said something else, like "terrorism is a bad thing".

I don't expect this posting to be accepted. I once praised Gerald Kaufman over a speech he made in Parliament, but that was in a debate about anti-semitism. With his speeches about Israel, well he is not married and has no children. That means he has no descendents to be ashamed of his memory.

And there were DISPROPORTIONATE KILLINGS. Israel lost 6/7 an the Gazans lost 1 4 0 0, of which 300 children and many hundred CIVILIANS. DEVASTATION of HOSPITALS,SCHOOLS, UNITED NATIONS BUILDING, (to which Israel accept liability,), Water Plants. Electricity Plants, Sewage plans, WATER PIPES, and Thousands of innocents GAZAN's HOMES + + + + + + + Mr Gerald Kaufman is only telling the TRUTH, which you appear to be unable to SWALLOW. Gerald is a Jew like us , but certainly someone who can sleep at night, and even travelling the world without FEAR of being ARRESTED. Unlike many WAR CRIMINALS.

Obviously you are trying to draw moral equivalency between Belfast and Gaza, but it is illogical and intellectually vacuous. The Israel blockade of Gaza is in violation of article 33, of the 4th Geneva Convention, which prohibits collective punishment of a civilian population. There was no such violation in Belfast and such conjecture is idle. Breaches of 4th Convention articles are considered war crimes. Israel is conducting one of the worst human rights abuses taking place in the world today. You, sir, are the hypocrite, for attempting to make such a fatuous comparison.

can any Israeli hear? Does any Israeli want to?

British MP KAUFMAN. (Jewish). Labour Legislator,said that he wants to see Israelis,(Cast Lead) brought to trial as war criminals.Did he say that ? Well.Well.Well ! In 1953, Ethel Rosenberg & Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the electric chair,spying for the Soviet Union. Appeals for clemency poured in from all over the world. Nothing in the world budged that judge. His name; Irving KAUFMAN. A Jew ! People have said that had it been a non-Jewish judge, Ethel & Julius would have been saved from the electric chair. It is a sad fact,that when Jews hold high positions they almost always tend to act against thair own kind. Sad but true. You can look around,& see for yourselves. And have you heard of Goldenberg !? N.B. I always shudder when I hear that a Jew holds a high position especially in Israel or connected to Israel. Case in point Herbert Samuel: First High Commissioner in Palestine,& the Mufti Of Jlm.We saw where that led to !

the difference between british and israeli imperialism is there was no international treaty in the 19th century to prevent british greed.i believe israel is a member of the un is it not?when americans stole the land from the amerindians there was no international law to prevent it.after 2 wws the world decided to try and prevent such happenings and created the un.unfortunately its pretty much been ignored by certain countries.sad. do we want to return to the past?might makes right?middle ages redux?how did the jews fare in the middle ages?not too well i remember.as far as war crimes america and britain are complicit in their use of d.u. and phosphorus and should be prosecuted too.

If you stand up for human rights, apply it equally to everyone - not just your enemies. If you don't defend human rights, you have no right to charge others with abuses.

They would have more "screws to put school desks together" if they didn't put them in suicide bombs.

So is terrorism. If you play with fire you get burned.

The UN has blamed Israel countless times for blockading Gaza, but they never mentioned Egypt. What is this Brit talking about? Is he part of the Zionist plot?

as an interested party taking a reconciliatory stance somewhere in the middle. But there is far more self-promotion available by attacking Israel and pandering to the terrorists. And in the UK they parade him around as representative of UK Jewry. Joke.

No british politician can teach anyone how to behave. i.e. the british empire. The British went round the world meddling in other peoples affairs, murdering people, drawing temporary borders, making up countries that did not exist, for example Jordan which was called Trans-Jordan. Wars are still happening in the world due to the british empire. As someone else stated on here, Britain can give back the Malvinas Islands to Argentina; they are 9,000 miles away off the coast of Argentina! Britain can also give Gibralter back to Spain and leave Cyprus alone. Britain still has a base in Cyprus. And why are British forces in Afghanistan? Afghanistan is on the other side of the planet; there are no terrorists firing missiles into Britain from Afghanistan. Clean up your own kitchen before trying to teach someone else how to behave

A few months back, this Gerald Kaufman was roundly criticized in the UK for trying to claim about NIS 50,000 for a TV and an antique rug from a NY store on his MP's expenses. He also claimed £1,262 for a gas bill that was £1,055 in credit, according to the Daily Telegraph. This scandalous behavior contaminates any cause he associates himself with.

What about the British occupation of Northern Ireland and the starvation they caused there causing the massive emigration to North America? The hypocritical Brits'should not speak to anyone about Human rights. They rank as one of the worst offenders in World History. The first country to expel Jews inn the 13th century. Kaufman's children and granchildren may one day also be expelled when the Muslims take over Britain. Should Israel take them in?

His speeches are intended to get him reelected and in the UK that means getting the Muslim vote. The UK has a pathetic record on human rights from the slave trade, murder and hanging of anyone who opposed its rule in the colonies, lies and abrogation of signed treaties, to the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Dresden, starving Jews in concentration camps in Cyprus in 1948, attacking Argentina, Iraq, Afganistan an on an on. Starving people cannot make or fire rockets but the Brits do not care about facts. Israel has delivered more aid to Gaza than the UK despite the fact gaza wants to eliminate all jews and the State of Israel. The UK lion is now a mouse, Israel is here to stay. Kaufman is an idiot and like all politicians, a liar and a pathetic old man no one listens to. He will, like most labour MP's be out in the next election I wonder if the Jew Haters care about Haiti. Probably not. Unless they can pin the tragegy there on Israel. I am sure they are working on it

Not the same thing. However lets agree it is and any British person criticising Israel is a hypocrite, So what? Is that all you have to say? Maybe it makes you feel better but that is all. Israel has a right to defend herself. The question is whether Israel's actions are defensive or in fact crimes against the Palestinian people. Why not discuss that?

Hypocrite you say? Do you know what Kaufmans views on Iraq / Afghanistan were? You cannot immediately ssociate him with the actions of Blair. The UK public as a whole was agains the Iraq war. One of the biggest marches in history was held in London against it. Insteady of simply calling people hypocrites why not focus on what is he saying.

Are you saying that every single person living in Gaza, including 750,000 children under the age of 16 are terrorists? No wonder Israelis are scurrying around the world trying to avoid criminal charges for war crimes.

Under the law of International Jurisdiction if you have evidence that the United Kingdom or the United States used chemical weapons against civilian populations in Iraq or in Afghanistan in a manner illegal under International Law. Then why don't you issue an arrest warrant and pursue those responsible in the International Courts at The Hague? It is your right as a member of the International Community to ensure that crimes against humanity are punished..

Out of 646 deputies only 34 showed up to listen to Kaufman. Should we say : he is talikng to the walls.

Out of 646 deputies only 34 showed up to listen to Kaufman. Should we say : he is talikng to the walls.

The American taxpayer is wising up to the propaganda of AIPAC and questioning the United States blind support of Israel when Americans are dying of hunger in America. Not just that, at long last Americans are not buying that blind support of Israel didn't contribute to the events of 9/11 despite desperate attempts by Jews to supress that information. Fact is Osama Bin Laden got the idea for 9/11 watching Israeli planes funded by the American taxpayer dropping American provided bombs and laying waste to entire residential districts in Beirut in 1982. Gaza is used in the radicalisation of moslems to carryout such ideas. The United States is beginning to connect the dots, won't be long now.

Israel is following a policy of deliberate starvation of an entire people and then complaining when people object. At least Israel's politicians and military are now longer able to act as normal civilised members of the human race and travel the world without fear of arrest.

Kaufman may represent a useful idiot for Hamas, but he is no fool. Like Galloway, his Marxism influenced interpretation of world events fits with their Islamist one and allows him to ignore what Hamas itself states about its intentions for Jews while maintaining his popularity among important ethnic/social groups within his electorate. That will keep him in demand after he leaves Parliament. If Israel did a better job of explaining that the Gaza "blockade" is no blockade and showing the evidence of Hamas' human shield policy and of how UN agencies allowed themselves to be used by Hamas and the violence, consistency and extent of Hamas' policies as regards Jews, then common sense would stop Kaufman's influence from spreading beyond his own electorate.

What about a 'state' that has conquered and occupied another country? And a state that has all the world against? Does such a state like costa rica have a right to be independent from Spain? Should it send back all those of Spanish ancestry and put the indios in power?

Nobody is starving in Gaza. The markets are bustling, you can even buy iphones there. What Hamas typically does (e.g. last week) is to shell the crossings to Gaza (Kerem Shalom), so that Israel stops the trucks for several hours - then they complain. And after we withdrew completely from Gaza (which the British failed to do in Northern Ireland for the last 800 years) nobody has the right to demand from us we should engage in a kind of free trade zone with Islamic militants who shell us with grenades and rockets and declare the destruction of our state is their goal. The Palestinians have now for the first time in their history a common border with an Arab brother state (Egypt) that is not controlled by anybody else (the EU observers, as usual, fled after Hamas fired 3 shots in the air when they did their coup d'etat). So, henceforth, please direct all complaints to Egypt and Hamas!

Britain also uses white phosphorus in Ira and Afghanistan. Israel went to war against next door muslim terrorists. When did Afghanistan and Iraq attack Britain? Eight years of war and one million killed. British hypocrites. Also Israel didn't steal islands in the south atlantic from a friendly country. The Malvinas belong to Argentina and are occupied land. Gibraltar: Britain stole land from a friendly country. Israel didn't steal any land from Spain.

Did your Gazan tour by Hamas include peeks into bomb-rigged rooms sharing party walls with totally unaware families on the other side? Did you lower your lofty head to see the protected terror tunnels built to keep in the brave Hamas war instigators while keeping out their civilian population? I suggest you go back and make sure you go off the scenic, beaten path this time and find out what's really going on in Gaza before you voice your bias.

"another british dummy lecturing israel on what is right and wrong and not one word of hamas rockets or incitment... this is nothing more than a photo op for another jerk ... why doesn`t he show his solidary with gaza by moving there instead of dropping by and then heading home to his cushy fat cat life style ... you know where the british polticians steal from the public with phoney expense accounts .. the british are just a second, no make that third rate power .. and this is the reason why" What are you talking about "not one word about rockets"? Hamas government was punished from thier first onset, or dont you remember when Israel pushed all its "friends" to freeze their assets and cut humanitarian aid to the palestinians. On top of that Israel was withholding their tax collection from port duties, or have you forgotten that as well when they couldnt even pay their workers. How much more should they be punished? Israel has been lucky to even get away with this garbage for so long

If the IRA had done what Hamas and Islamic Jihad had done to Israel, N. Ireland would be a footnote found in Wikipedia. Hypocrites!

another british dummy lecturing israel on what is right and wrong and not one word of hamas rockets or incitment... this is nothing more than a photo op for another jerk ... why doesn't he show his solidary with gaza by moving there instead of dropping by and then heading home to his cushy fat cat life style ... you know where the british polticians steal from the public with phoney expense accounts .. the british are just a second, no make that third rate power .. and this is the reason why

Kaufman is Jewish and well-spoken. He also has a long record of using his Jewish antecedents and reasonably good diction to speak out vitriolically against Israel. In the Parliamentary speech you posted, Kaufman implies that Israeli soldiers make a habit of murdering Palestinian grandmothers in their beds. That the world no longer automatically realises that this is patently absurd is a mark of how deeply hostile propaganda has struck. People like Kaufman are no longer fringe oddities to be tolerated. They are part of the concerted drive to make Israel and Israelis fair game for the next holocaust. Kaufman?s pathetic pandering to the anti-Israel mob will do him no good. If they ever get around to finishing us off they will come for him as well.

Nazrallah is in charge of Britain. Exactly the same policies nazrallah would implement. Britain is lost to radical islam and their current policies are a good indicator of that... Seen couple of videos what radical islamists do in England looks atrocious.. Britain is no longer the same it should be called Britanistad!!!

MR kaufman jewishness is by no mean the pivotal aspect of his belief.however for the hammas and some british muslems as well ,the sharia law is the rason d-etre of their existence, they will not compromise, their religion is total and is more important then life itself I.E SUICIDE BOMBERS ,until kaufman understand this he is not someone who understands what he talks about the Egyptians do understand and do not need kaufman to teach them or to preach them and for that matter neigher DO the israelis

The Palestinians in the West Bank are not starving due to the barrier. And the Palestinians in Gaza are not starving either. you should wise up.

The Belfast walls aren't the same Fortuna... as well you know. The walls were built to protect both communities from each other and were in the main supported by the people living on either side of them. There is no blockade in Belfast. People can come and go as they please. We are not starving or denied anything whatsoever. Wise up.

With the world's reconstruction efforts occupied with the massive 3-year project to rebuild Haiti, and help the genuinely innocent there, the Gaza bunkers will have to wait until then to be rebuilt, and Israel should stop these EU delegations at Ben Gurion customs until their countries finish this work. Gaza brought its disaster on itself, as did Dresden, who got not one shipment of food or cement until they SURRENDERED their weapons and stopped killing their neighbors.

"Anybody who uses white phosphorus should be arrested and should be tried for war crimes." Yes, I agree with Mr. Kaufman. Olmert, Livni, Barak, et al. should be promptly arrested and shipped to The Hague to face war crimes charges.

Great Britainistan preaching virtue with its record of miserable cruely and imperialism. The British mandate is over.

Kaufman is Jewish and well spoken too, you can hardly call him an Israel hater: Listen to his earlier speech in parlement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8

Egypt dislikes the hammas as they are a branch of the muslem brootherhood which aiman el zwahiry the second in command in al qaida comes from.The egyptian know that hammas will strive to change the regime in egypt to a muslem republic with the sharia law.Kaufman is ignorant enough not to understand that just a Carter was with the shah and khumeiny twenty years ago.

A state has the duty to defend its citizens from indiscrimenent attacks.I say that the evil are the suiside bombers whether in airplanes or on the ground.