{"id":84844,"date":"2025-08-09T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84844"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:35:08","slug":"ten-questions-for-uk-politicians-to-answer-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/09\/ten-questions-for-uk-politicians-to-answer-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten questions for UK politicians to answer on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These ten questions needing answers from UK politicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/08\/genocide-is-not-a-humanitarian-crisis-it-is-a-crime\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1036437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were posted as a comment<\/a> on the blog overnight by RobertJ.\u00a0I think they are far too relevant not to post here. If there are more, please add them in comments. A final list might then be produced for social media.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the internationally recognised borders of Israel? Please provide an internationally recognised map.<\/li>\n<li>How long has the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem lasted?<\/li>\n<li>Ditto for the Golan Heights.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto for the more recent occupation of Syria?<\/li>\n<li>Do Palestinians have an internationally recognised right of self-determination?<\/li>\n<li>Do occupied peoples have an internationally recognised right to forcefully resist occupation?<\/li>\n<li>Do Palestinians have an internationally recognised right to both forcefully resist occupation and an internationally recognised right of self-defence?<\/li>\n<li>Is the modern state of Israel, created by international agreement, bound by international law<\/li>\n<li>What do you understand by the term \u201crogue state\u201d and how should they be dealt with by the international community?<\/li>\n<li>What will happen to Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife when he is no longer Prime Minister?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"te-floating-button-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ten questions needing answers from UK politicians were posted as a comment on the blog overnight by RobertJ.\u00a0I think they are far too relevant<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/09\/ten-questions-for-uk-politicians-to-answer-on-israel\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,16,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-ethics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84856,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84844\/revisions\/84856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}