SOFT POWER AND HARD POWER (No. 2)

Early day motion 647, tabled 16 January 2007 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 17 members.

That this House recalls the hard power stance adopted by the Government in July 2006 by describing calls for a cease-fire in Lebanon as a meaningless gesture; asserts that that call was not meaningless for the children subsequently buried alive at Qana, the thousand killed and the million whose homes were destroyed; and believes the soft power option of an early cease-fire would have avoided these tragedies, which weakened Israel and strengthened Hezbollah.

Signatures by party: Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 4, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1.