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Britain Palestine Project: Recognition is the Beginning
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December 21, 2023

The Holy Land: what happened in Palestine by Trustee John McHugo in The Tablet

Current Positions, HistoricalDecember 21, 2023

Published in The Tablet 16 December 2023 issue.  Peace in Israel/Palestine will not be reached until each side understands the legitimate rights of the other – and stops interpreting facts to advocate its own story By JOHN McHUGO Facts are sacred, including historical facts, so how did such strikingly different narratives to the story of…

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Letter to the Foreign Secretary: ceasefire now

Balfour Project viewpoint, Current Positions, NewsDecember 21, 2023

Background and timeline: Brigadier John Deverell CBE, former Director of Defence Diplomacy at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), has coordinated a letter from military and foreign policy experts to UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron. It calls for the UK to work with other members of the UN Security Council to bring forward a renewed…

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