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Israel's Gaza response 'collective punishment': British Deputy PM
[Al Ahram] Israel's retaliatory air strikes on Gazoo have been "deliberately disproportionate" and amount to "collective punishment", Britannia's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally.
*sigh* Not unusually robust for Britain, no. Sorry.
Clegg made his comments on the tenth day of fighting between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, during a five-hour humanitarian truce which prompted a temporary halt to Israel's and Hamas' air strikes.

"I really do think now the Israeli response appears to be deliberately disproportionate, it is amounting now to a disproportionate form of collective punishment," Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the country's coalition, told Britannia's LBC radio station.

"I really would now call on the Israel Government to stop. They've proved their point," he said. He said he respected Israel's right to defend itself.
"Just don't defend yourselves too robustly, lads. One doesn't, nowadays."

Posted by: Fred 2014-07-18
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