Ahmed Bahar: British government decision against MP, Younus Al-Astal, hostile to Palestinian people

Ahmed Bahar:

British government decision against MP, Younus Al-Astal, hostile to Palestinian people

[ 07/05/2009 - 11:00 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has described the British government's decision to ban entry of Hamas MP Dr. Younus Al-Astal into its territory as "hostile" to the Palestinian people.

Bahar in a statement on Wednesday said that Britain was not content with its political and material support for Israel and its "ominous" role in the creation of that "entity" on the usurped lands of Palestine following the Balfour Declaration but now is issuing another "oppressive" decision against the Palestinian people.

"We in the chairmanship of the PLC affirm that the Palestinian people are free to choose their representatives especially in the latest legislative elections of January 2006, which the entire world testified to its integrity," he elaborated.

The acting speaker said that London should have rather issued decisions against the Israeli war criminals who committed massacres against humanity the latest being the brutal war on Gaza Strip in which 1,400 Palestinian citizens were killed mostly women and children while thousands others were maimed or wounded.

The PLC chairmanship expected the British government to make amends for its historical mistakes against the Palestinian people instead of passing hostile, irrational decisions against the Palestinians, Bahar said, adding that the PLC was waiting for a British apology for the decision against MP. Dr. Astal.

The British interior ministry had issued for the first time on Tuesday a decision banning the entry into Britain of 16 figures including Dr. Astal because of "preaching extremism and hatred".

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