We are organizing an intervention by Erasmo Palazzottoformer parliamentarian, vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Commission and chairman of the commission of inquiry into the murder of Giulio Regeniand from Arturo ScottoDeputy of Democratic Party.
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As of October 7, 2023, everything has changed Israel And Palestine. It is a date that will forever mark history middle East. We are faced not with one of the many dramatic crises that have marked the recent history of a centuries-old conflict, but with its terrible evolution. For the first time it fails the asymmetry of the Israeli-Palestinian conflictalthough not in terms of military strength, but in terms of the scale of crimes committed and the number of civilian victims.
Hamas is one Act of terrorism unprecedented in its size and its brutality against the civilian population, making it a crime against humanity in every respect. There is none possible understanding, no violence suffered by the Palestinian people and no abuse committed by the Israeli army in recent years can justify a gesture of this kind. And it is good to repeat this with the same clarity with which many of us have denounced the violations of international law by Israel and the Israeli regime in recent years apartheidas stated in the United Nations reports to which the Palestinian people have been subjected.
Hamas’s gesture is a gesture that it will have dramatic consequences especially for the Palestinians and especially Gaza, which is already under unprecedented bombardment, leaving two million people stranded without food, water and electricity.
Therefore, today it is necessary to express solidarity and closeness to the Israeli people as well as to the Palestinian people, both victims of this spiral of hatred and violence. We must remember that Hamas is not Gaza and especially not Palestine or the Palestinians.
The disappearance of the Palestinian perspective from the international agenda carries enormous weight: the PNA leadership’s crisis of credibility after the Oslo Accords was accompanied by a reduction in the field of peace throughout the Middle East.
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On the other hand, if we have come this far, it is because we have done so in recent years we pretended not to see itwe thought it might be one status quo sustainable living conditions of millions PalestiniansWe were convinced that the radicalization affecting Israeli and Palestinian society was not a problem symmetrical way.
Today, Gaza is ruled by a regime that has shown us that it has no qualms about exploiting its own people Victim a very specific political plan; And Israel has a nationalist government and from extreme right – never so isolated in the international context – whose declared aim is to reach a final solution to the conflict, which includes the abolition of Palestine and the legitimate desire of its people for a state.
We really believe that these positions can lead to one peace process and to achieve the goal of two peoples, two states?
We firmly believe that we have turned Gaza into an open-air prison Hamas had no dramatic consequences, other than the international community’s awe at remembering it Government of Israel to their responsibility for what happens every day West Bank Wouldn’t it have sparked more violence against Palestinian citizens?
So here we are at the front to escalate a conflict The There will be no winners or losersfor there simply cannot be a winner in what is now increasingly taking on the nature of a winner Civil War. Gaza exists, the Palestinians exist and will exist even after the retaliation of the Israeli army and until we have the strength and courage to affirm that without justice for a people there will never be peace HamasThe Islamic Jihador whatever comes next will always be stronger.
Those who are calling for the use of today unlimited power And what do you think will happen outside of international law in a few months and after thousands of deaths? We risk witnessing a never-ending spiral. Injustice is the terrain on which Hamas has built its military and political strength, and it is the root of that strength, which must be defeated by offering Palestinians the hope of a just peace without the intervention of another 10,000 victims wait.
You need one Foreign policy If we are able to understand the complexity of the context in which this escalation is taking place, we need a peace conference that brings the issues to the table Reasons for the conflict and which, for the first time in many years, offers hope for a just solution for the Palestinians too.
Also because the conflict today harbors risks expand beyond the borders of Israel and Palestinewhich takes on a regional dimension, which is inserted into an already very unstable geopolitical scenario due to the war in Ukraine and which is characterized by the open contradictions of European societies.
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We have to find that political compassuse the tools of diplomacy he was born negotiated – which also includes the hypothesis of an intermediate force a Protection of the civilian population based on the model of Unifil In Lebanon – to avoid this risk by resisting the temptation to use only force to solve every crisis of our time.
We need a renewal and a new start the Palestinian AuthorityWe must build a bridge of dialogue with the large part of Israeli society that wants to eliminate the deposits of hatred and break the long cycle of war and terrorism. Two peoples, two stubborn states, in the darkest hour of a desperate country.