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Pendle's West Bank twinning plan is abandoned (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Pendle's West Bank twinning plan is abandoned
1:00pm Saturday 19th January 2013 in Pendle
PENDLE will not be twinning with the West Bank in Palestine after members of the borough’s twinning association decided it was not appropriate.
In December councillors voted to push forward plans to twin the borough with Beit Lid following a debate at a meeting.
Supporters of the move said it would show solidarity with the victims on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But the twinning now looks unlikely to go ahead, after Pendle Twinning Association decided it was not feasible or appropriate.
Coun John David, who is involved with the twinning association along with his wife, said: “I wasn’t present at the meeting but the association decided they didn’t feel able to support it.
“They decided it was not really something we would able to handle generally and would be difficult to organise.”
An informal arrangement has existed between Beit Lid and Pendle for several years, with cultural exchanges taking place.
Coun Mohammed Iqbal, the Labour group leader, said that the move had been proposed in the wake of a successful ‘Pray for Gaza’ event in Nelson.
Around 350 people held a peaceful protest in the town’s Market Square last December after violence broke out between Israel and Palestine last month.
The twinning association also decided to decline an invitation to formally twin with the town of Dakhla in Morocco.
Representatives from Dakhla, including the mayor Sidi Sloh Eljoumani, met Pendle officials at an event in Creil, France, which is one of Pendle’s official twin towns.
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Comments (29)
2:15pm Sat 19 Jan 13
George.White.Bread says...
7:28pm Sat 19 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
8:17pm Sat 19 Jan 13
sen c ble says...
8:47pm Sat 19 Jan 13
Info-warrior says...
The remark, which likened killing hundreds of men, women and children – many of them noncombatants – with trimming the grass, was greeted with a light tittering around the room, which was filled with some of Washington’s most elite, highly educated and well-paid Middle East experts. Not a single one objected to the panelist’s black humor.
On the contrary, several analysts and experts were grinning at the reference to Israel’s strategy of mounting periodic attacks on the Palestinians to cull each new generation of militants. Such is the nonchalance of Washington’s policy-advising cognoscenti toward the ongoing and systematic genocide of Gaza’s oppressed population.
The Israeli's are not just building industrial and domestic developments wherever they wish to, but they're also building vast amounts of hatred from around the world for using such horrific language at such an high level..quite shocking.
10:57pm Sat 19 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
Shame this twinning didn't happen because it's about time the world made a stand against the criminal state of Israel!
P.S. Long live Palestine and all it's People.
1:36am Sun 20 Jan 13
ToffeeGuy says...
But sense has prevailed and politics and religion shouldn't mix. The council should be secular in all it's activities.
Residents of Pendle who were in favour of this twinning should spend more time on matters affecting own neighbourhoods in this country not on global politics seen through the prism of their religious faith.
9:45am Sun 20 Jan 13
happycyclist says...
10:37am Sun 20 Jan 13
hi everyone says...
11:10am Sun 20 Jan 13
disgusted tunbridge wells says...
12:53pm Sun 20 Jan 13
Chris P Bacon says...
1:28pm Sun 20 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
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Shame on Israel and shame on all evil illegally occupying Jews!!!
1:31pm Sun 20 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
4:44pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ToffeeGuy says...
But it does make me wonder who is peddling propaganda about the Palestine situation within our communities and how this information is being spread.
5:47pm Sun 20 Jan 13
sen c ble says...
Disney also owns Miramax films run by Weinsten Brothers!
ABC's cable subsidiary ESPN, is headed by president and CEO, Stphen Bornstein!
Times Warner's sunsidiary HBO chairman of the board and CEO, Gerald Levin!
Warner's Brothers Records headed by Danny Goldberg!
Warnervision president, Stuart Hersch!
Times Warners publishing division, editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstine!
Murdoch's film studio headed by Peter Chermin!
New World Entertainment owned by Ronald Perelman!
ABC is part of Eisner's Disney Company, Victor Neufeld (20-20)!,Bob Reichbloom (Good Morning America)! Rich Kaplan (World News Tonight)!
President of CBS News, Eric Ober!
NBC president, Andrew Lack!
New York Times publisher Arthue Ochs Sulzberger!, executive producer Max Frankel!, managing editor Joseph Lelyveld!
The Washigton Post run by Katherine Meyer Graham!
The New York Daily News owned by estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman!
The chairman and CEO Peter Kann!
GLOBAL ZIONISM!
The Palestinian Cause is not propoganda and neither is it exaggerated in any way. It would be foolish to rely on media related information. One has to travel to the occupied territories and witness at first hand the brutality the Palestinians, which consisits of several religion backgrounds, who are constantly oppressed. It may well be this oppression may not be any concern of others around the world, but for some it is a moral duty and a responsibiltiy to bring awareness of the extreme violence the Palestinians face as their voice and cries are not being heard!
6:28pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ToffeeGuy says...
Many people seem to be picking up their knowledge from a tiny cabal of community elders with their own grudge to bear based on religion.
8:14pm Sun 20 Jan 13
sen c ble says...
Arming the rebels in Syria must now really be a concern for the British government, topped up with the botched up hostage rescue operation in Algeria and the Northern Ireland conflict!
9:28pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
usands of tons of arms to attack and bomb the jewish state indiscriminatly,whil
e letting thier own die,???
9:28pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
usands of tons of arms to attack and bomb the jewish state indiscriminatly,whil
e letting thier own die,???
9:31pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
9:34pm Sun 20 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
10:26pm Sun 20 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
Long live Palestine!
10:38pm Sun 20 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
What planet are living on, Planet ZION?It is the evil occupying Jews that fire at the Palestinians indiscriminatley and kill innocent human beings regluarly. Isreal is a criminal state that continues to break more UN rules than any country in the world.
Why is Israel so opposed to a Palestinian State?
Why does Israel so against Palestine joining the United Nations and becoming a member.
Why does Isreal occupy and continue to rape the Palestinians of there land?
Fact is the Israelis are not nice but evil people!!!
10:49pm Sun 20 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
Shame on Israel and down with Israel!
FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE from it's evil illegal occupier and long live Palestine and all it's People!!!
12:15am Mon 21 Jan 13
Info-warrior says...
Approximately 1.5 million Palestinian civilians have died since 1948,including the victims of the ethnic cleansing campaigns in the west in 1948-50 and in the east since 1967. Civilian deaths have escalated dramatically in recent years since the zionists developed their obsession with the Palestinian birth-rate,and children are often the target. There is only a small fine for killing a Palestinian in cold blood. It's based on a weapons charge,not murder. To understand the genocidal character of this vile regime,one need only glance at the responses from zionists; at least half advocate or at least imply approval of the killing of non-jews. Adocating genocide is by the way a reportable offence on Y/A. Aproximately 2000 civilian Palestinians are killed each year. If you are jewish and you shoot an 8-year-old Palestinian girl in cold blood,you will have your weapons license revoked for three months and pay a fine equivalent to 35 to 70 pounds. It's considered by the "government'"to be more or less the same thing as shooting squirrals within city limits with a .22. would be in America. Zionists love to murder Palestinian children and they do it all the time. The military handles the mass-murders. We are not talking about suicide bombers or militants; those figures fall into another category. I am referring to wanton killing of civilians
11:23am Mon 21 Jan 13
ToffeeGuy says...
1:07pm Mon 21 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
3:13pm Tue 22 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
"Israel has created the biggest open air prison in the world called Palestine!"
Shame on Israel and down with Israel!!!
3:38pm Tue 22 Jan 13
ROBERTSLUMDWELLER123 says...
8:48pm Tue 22 Jan 13
John James Senior says...
As stated earlier; you are one sick sad individual who is clearly deluded from the facts! Typical Zionist...
Shame on Israel and down with Israel! Long live Palestine and all it's People!!! FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE!!!!!!!!!!