I am a British deputy, a doctor and a Jew. This is what happened when I tried to enter Israel Peter Princeley
EArlier this week, I was He is deprived of entering Israel While in a humanitarian delegation organized by the Board of Advancement of British Arab Understanding (Caabu). Non -governmental organizations are one of the most active and respected bodies working in the Middle East in the British Parliament. It enhances the solution to conflict, human rights and civil society.
The purpose of my visit, along with my parliamentarian Simon Obsseer, a gay doctor, was to start understanding the state of health care of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Unfortunately, we have not been presented in Israel, not to mention the visit of any hospitals in the occupied territories.
Instead, all that I was allowed to see is a land of no man from the border crossing of Sheikh Hussein, the Jordan River fell to occur. When I waited as border officials were returning their minds from me, I finished the only thing that I brought with me to eat – a small bag of KP – and gained the extent of Israel’s decline by its current government and its change, almost as well as recognition.
This is not the first time that Israel has denied the entry of British parliamentarians – a similar fate for two of my colleagues in April. I do not defend removing it from Israel for a moment, but removing me is different.
It represents the extent of isolating the Israeli government itself. It is sad to say that Israel today seems to be a world far from comprehensive, pluralistic, open and democratic principles that were founded in 1948.
I am a Jew, one of ten members or so on the Jews in the House of Commons. I visited Israel for the first time as an ideal medicine student who has ever promised to spend a happy holiday, and visit the family that lives there. I am a member of the British Jewish Parliament and a supporter of the local synagogue.
The official Israeli document that prohibits my entry into “public security, public safety or public order considerations”, without providing any explanation on how the 67 -year -old earlier ear, nose and throat surgeon form an ever threat.
I decided to join the delegation because it would have given me an opportunity to speak with doctors, patients and medical charities on the ground, and to expand my knowledge of terrible events in the Middle East and how it affects medical facilities, paramedics and patients who treat them. As parliamentarians, we have a responsibility to be as much as possible.
We had months of destroyed pictures that are broadcast at night on our TV screens like Humanitarian catastrophe In Gaza, it is revealed. Transparency is the only way we can work for a peaceful solution to this devastating war. Only by talking and understanding that we have a chance of peace. Only with openness and honesty it can be achieved in good faith.
Gaza has already been completely cut off For journalistsDiplomats and human rights advocates. Parliamentarians are now deprived of entering the West Bank.
His cousin sent me while returning to the house: “He represents everything that is corrupt around the system and how it is indulging.”
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My admiration for many British doctors and health care workers who traveled to the area to work tirelessly in the horrific situations to care for those affected by the war are still strong as it was always. Unfortunately, I was prevented from transferring this admiration personally and from reporting my colleagues in the United Kingdom for what I was able to monitor and learn on the ground.
Like Israel, it is once hope for a generation of Jews. It hurts a lot to say that the friendships that we believe that we are in the Jewish community are eternally undermined by the current Israeli government.
When I entered a car to return to Amman in Jordan, less than 24 hours after my arrival, I left I wondering: What became the state of Israel?