Early Day Motions

Massacre in Jerusalem

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1398A1: tabled on 17 October 1990

Tabled in the 1989-90 session.

This motion has been signed by 12 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Mr George Galloway on 15 October 1990. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

Leave out from 'House' to end and add 'regrets the tragic deaths of Palestinian rioters in Jerusalem, but also expresses its sympathy to all other victims of violence in Israel and its administered territories such as the peaceful Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles who were stoned by an Arab mob, or Amnon Pomerantz who was brutally murdered by Arabs in Gaza, or the hundreds of Arabs who have been murdered or beaten up by other Arabs since the beginning of the violence described as the Intifada; notes the total inactivity of the United Nations over the daily slaughter of scores of people in Lebanon, let alone the previous deaths a few years ago of hundreds of people at the Holy City of Mecca or at the Golden Temple of Amritsar; recalls that no nation has a better record of protecting access to holy places than Israel; and calls upon Israel's neighbouring Arab countries to follow the example of Egypt and negotiate peace directly with the democratically-elected government of Israel.'.

Original motion text

That this House, deeply shocked by the massacre of more than 20 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, conscious that a great many other Palestinians were wounded and maimed in the incident, aware that in the more than 1,000 days of the Intifada the Israeli Defence Forces have killed almost 1,000 Palestinians, mainly children and young teenagers and have wounded and maimed tens of thousands, again mainly children and young people, unreservedly condemns the killings in Jerusalem; deplores the continuing 'iron fist' policy of the Israeli occupiers; demands the release of the Palestinian leaders, including Feisal Husseini, held in prison after the massacre; and demands the United Nations Security Council convene itself as the International Peace Conference awaited so long and start the process of Israeli withdrawal from the territories acquired by force, the foundation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and thus demobilise this the greatest threat to peace and stability in the Middle East.