Kuwaiti lawmakers stress need to suspend Israeli Knesset from int'l union

TEHRAN, Jan 17 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti lawmakers have reiterated calls to suspend Israel's Knesset from the Inter-Parliamentary Union and expressed their full support for the Palestinians at a conference here on Wednesday.
The calls were made in light of the legal cover the Israeli parliament provides its government, which continues its "breaches and arrogant, arbitrary and violent practices against the Palestinian people, even minors," MP Awda Al-Ruwaei told fellow Islamic lawmakers.
The Kuwaiti people stand behind the calls made by Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim at the last IPU talks late last year, the Kuwaiti lawmaker said at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Parliamentary Union (PUIC) conference.
"Islamic delegations bear the responsibility of making plans aimed at achieving something tangible, and delivering a message to the world that the Zionist entity's actions on Palestinian land are 'unacceptable'.
"The ethnic cleansing and torture being carried out against the Palestinians has only increased their dignity and pride, and the occupation over the years has not been able to wipe out this identity," he said.
The PUIC, at the conclusion of its 13th session, called to repeal Israel's membership in the IPU in the wake of Tel Aviv's challenges against international laws, and condemned US President Donald Trump's recent recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
It called upon OIC member countries bearing any ties to Israel to "freeze these relationships" until the American administration backs down from its "wrongful" decision. (end) mw.sd