Sunday, March 17, 2013

Australia MPs: Gaza is world's largest outdoor jail...

An Australian politician sparked uproar in a parliament debate Wednesday, when he described Gaza as "the world's largest open-air prison camp" and compared resistance to Israel's former occupation of southern Lebanon with that against Nazi Germany, Australian media reported Friday.

Labor Legislative Councillor Shaoquett Moselmane made his comments during a debate in the New South Wales's (NSW) parliament over a motion on a recent study trip to Israel by a delegation of regional parliamentarians organized by the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies.

Moselmane's description of Gaza echoed comments made earlier in the debate by David Shoebridge of the Greens party, who slammed the trip as a one-sided visit which "edited out" Palestinian and left-wing Israeli voices.

"How could members go there [Israel] and meet with only one of the legislative bodies, the Knesset, and ignore the Palestinian Legislative Council? How could members, who wanted to get a balanced understanding of the issues facing Israel, Palestine and the Middle East, go to the other side of the planet and fail to visit Gaza, the world’s largest outdoor prison?" Shoebridge asked. Full story...

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