Britain refuses to bend to Israeli pressure to cancel speech of Hamas Political Bureau leader Meshal.Bethlehem / PNN PNN Probabilistic Neural Network PNN Police National Network (UK) PNN Profesor No Numerario PNN Planet2025 News Network (internet news service) PNN Prediction-Based Nearest Neighbor PNN Plmn Network Name -- The Israeli government is complaining of Khaled Meshal's address to the British House of Commons Noun 1. British House of Commons - the lower house of the British parliament House of Commons house - an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses" British Parliament - the British legislative body . The head of the Political Bureau of Hamas is speaking via video conference Tuesday, addressing the House from his office in Damascus, Syria where he lives in exile.This comes after British MP Clare Short Clare Short (born 15 February, 1946) is a British politician and a member of the British Labour Party. She is currently the Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, having been elected as a Labour Party MP in 1983, and was Secretary of State for International of the Labour Party met with Meshal in March.The Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed "outrage and strong dissatisfaction," after Israeli pressure on London did not lead to the cancelling of Meshal's speech.The video conference is being described as the first of its kind. Britain and members of the Hamas leadership have had numerous contacts, but they are not considered "official," according to London which continues to keep the party on a "terrorist" list. Copyright Palestine News Network The Palestine News Network is an Arabic language media network run by Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza). It cooperates with the International Middle East Media Center which translates many of its reports into English for international, non-Arabic , 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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