Clare Short

Clare Short (born February 15, 1946) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003. Short was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.

Clare Short

Quotes

• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.
  • Quoted in Weeping Skies and The Times.

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
  • Wall Street Journal

• [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
  • ibid.

• I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.
  • 2008-04-15[1]

• It is ridiculous that British troops are here in Crossmaglen. The claim is that they're in Ireland keeping the peace between the two communities. But there is only one community in South Armagh, so what the heck are they doing here?
  • ISBN034071736X Harden, Toby - Bandit Country The IRA and South Armagh