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5 August 2014

SP Senator Tiny Kox urges Netherlands to aid Palestine’s legal case against Israel

The Palestinian government is to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to look into the question of whether Israel is guilty of war crimes in Gaza. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al Malki was in the Netherlands today for a meeting with the ICJ on the matter. He also spoke with his Dutch counterpart Frans Timmermans and a delegation of MPs and Senators.

2 August 2014

SP leaders Roemer and Kox: Violence in Gaza must stop

The horrible explosion of violence in Gaza has shocked people throughout the world. In our country as much as elsewhere, there is widespread horror. It’s time that the government of the Netherlands put greater pressure on Israel to put an end to the completely disproportionate nature and extent of the military intervention in Gaza, write SP leader Emile Roemer and the party’s Senate chair Tiny Kox.

30 July 2014

Gaza: SP supports call for immediate ceasefire and emergency aid

Today almost the whole of the United Left Group in the European Parliament, the political group to which the SP is affiliated, backed a call for the European Union to put pressure on Israel to cease immediately its attacks on Gaza and allow the supply of emergency aid. The SP’s Euro-MPs, Dennis de Jong and Anne-Marie Mineur signed the call.

29 July 2014

SP International Affairs spokesman Jasper van Dijk answers questions on developments in Ukraine

The Dutch National Parliament today discussed with the government the question of the air disaster involving Flight MH17 and its consequences. Below, SP Member of Parliament and spokesman on international affairs Jasper van Dijk answers four questions on the return of the victims’ bodies to the Netherlands, the progress of the investigation into the disaster and the SP’s position on Ukraine and Russia.

26 July 2014

Emile Roemer: Ceasefire in Gaza

Numbers and statistics are often misleading. They’re cold and bald, in contrast to the stories which lie hidden behind them. In Gaza, at the time of writing, more than 800 people have been killed in illegal attacks and air raids conducted by the Israeli armed forces on Palestinian territory.

25 July 2014

Emile Roemer: MH17

It is already more than a week since the appalling disaster of flight MH17 in Ukraine – a disaster which was not the result of natural causes, but which in all likelihood was caused by human agency. That makes it particularly painful and the feelings of powerlessness and rage particularly strong.

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