British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked a member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament after the man urged him to demand a “permanent” between Israel and Hamas.
Conservative MP Paul Bristow was dismissed as a parliamentary private secretary at the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology on Monday after he sent a letter to Sunak urging a ceasefire to “save lives and allow for a continued column of humanitarian aid [to] reach the people who need it the most.”
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While Hamas has continued to send missiles into Israel after its Oct. 7 massacre, a ceasefire is seen as playing into the militant group’s hands, as Israel is on the offensive, storming into Gaza to eradicate Hamas and save the hostages the group has captured.
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One of the Government’s ministerial aides has broken ranks to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
Paul Bristow, a parliamentary private secretary, wrote to Rishi Sunak urging a “permanent” end to hostilitieshttps://t.co/auU9Jv2JMb
— Dominic Penna (@DominicPenna) October 30, 2023
However, leaders around the world have called for a ceasefire nonetheless, as thousands of Palestinians have been killed on top of the 1,400 or so Israelis killed in the Oct. 7 attack. Sunak and President Joe Biden have not been among them, with Sunak calling for humanitarian “pauses” in the conflict instead.
Bristow is the MP for Peterborough, in eastern England, where the Muslim population is nearly double the country’s average. According to the 2021 census, it has a Muslim population of 12.2%, compared with the overall British population identifying as Muslim at 6.5%, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The MP told the Sun that it was “absolutely the right decision for the PM to fire me.”
“I obviously regret being sacked, but I have many thousands of constituents who feel very strongly about this issue, and feel I can better represent their views from the back benches than the Government payroll,” Bristow added.
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The firing highlights the contentious relations between lawmakers of world powers, as the U.K. and the United States represent two of Israel’s most important allies, yet they do not want to see additional civilian deaths.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-MI), one of Washington’s biggest defenders of Gaza, has faced calls for her censure over her comments on Israel. Outside of politics, the conflict in the Middle East has taken over college campuses, with students and faculty alike opposed over who is in the right and what is humane to do.
