Ed Miliband: “I regret what the Israeli government has announced, but I’m proud of what we did yesterday and it was the right thing to…”

There is a choice that we face in this, which is – do we stand by? Are we bystanders to the end of a long-established government policy and indeed the only hope for security and stability in the Middle East, or do we act?

I utterly reject the idea that we want to make Israel a pariah state. I couldn’t have been more clear in my statement about our friendship with the Israeli people and indeed our wish to have trade with green line Israel.

The underlying problem of his position is this. He supports the two-state solution with great vigour. He believes in the two-state solution. He sees the two-state solution being destroyed before our eyes. And I’m afraid his prescription is…

Well, I speak as a British Jew, and the reason we took the action yesterday is because we see the two-state solution – the only hope in my view for security and dignity for both the Israeli and Palestinian people – being destroyed before…