BRITAIN’S HYPOCRITICAL POLICIES TOWARDS PALESTINE http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/britains-hypocritical-policies-towards-palestine/

Day was asked if he thought that the flaccid British approach toward Israel – for example, asking nicely if the Jewish state would like to refrain from undermining peace efforts would really make Israel reconsider its manifestly criminal policy toward the Palestinians. Fleeing from the heat of the question, Day said there was no alternative to peace talks. He then dodged another question on whether he thought the impending talks would be truly genuine or just more of the same, as most Palestinians think. He was reminded about the fiasco of direct PA-Israel talks which lasted for eighteen years.

One journalist asked, “What makes you think that three months or even one year of indirect talks will succeed in achieving what eighteen years of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians failed utterly to achieve?” Frustrated by the directness of the questions, Day seemed at a loss about how to answer, knowing very well that the present so-called “peace efforts” are nothing more than a desperate regurgitation of previous talks.

He refused to answer a question on why the European Union, including Britain, was refusing to exert meaningful pressure on Israel to stop building Jewish colonies on occupied Palestinian territories, which undermine really seriously the feasibility of the increasingly moribund two-state solution.One journalist asked Day if he thought the Obama administration, which has been unable to persuade Israel to freeze settlement expansion, would be able to force Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Unable to answer the question, Mr. Day, who had earlier praised the Obama administration, said he was speaking only on behalf of the British government.