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Labour MP Mark Seward says the government is "right" to plan sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank but warns that Israel itself must not be boycotted ahead of an announcement by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in the House of Commons. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm very much looking forward to seeing the specific details of what's set out.
00:04The E-1 expansion proposals are abominable. They should not go ahead.
00:09The settler violence, the extremist settler violence we've seen, is unacceptable.
00:14And the British government is right to target those people.
00:17Where we might have issues is on the actual banning of goods from settlements,
00:21because what we don't want this to turn into is an endorsement of the wider boycott,
00:26or of a wider boycott, of Israel itself.
00:29The people who advocate for that, often they come from a background of wanting to remove all legitimacy from the
00:35Israeli state.
00:36And they also want to deny Jewish people alone of the rights to self-determination.
00:41So it's really important that we actually see the details of this.
00:44I haven't seen them yet, and then we'll respond accordingly.

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