Pedro Sánchez called for a two-state solution to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, just hours before Israel’s ultimatum is met for a million people, half of Gaza’s population, to move to the south of the Gaza Strip as part of its offensive against Hamas should. Last week, the acting president and general secretary of the PSOE was one of the European leaders quickest to condemn the fundamentalist organization’s “terrorist” attacks that caused the deaths of 1,400 Israelis and the kidnapping of hundreds, but did not comment on them until today the public. “This Spain loves peace, that is why we strongly and unequivocally condemn the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and also the deaths of Israelis and call for the urgent release of all these Israeli hostages and prisoners.” And with the same force we say that Israel, of course has the right to defend itself, but always within the framework of international humanitarian law, which does not materially support the evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza, as the United Nations says,” he explained at a rally in Mérida attended by 1,500 socialist militants and sympathizers .
The PSOE candidate for investiture went one step further and pushed for the recognition of Palestine as a state, which the Congress already did unanimously in 2014, when the government president was Mariano Rajoy (PP). “We proclaim that this conflict, which is causing so much suffering, so much fear and so much instability in the region and in the world, can only be resolved if, as the United Nations and the Cortes Generales say, the two States, Israel and … Palestine will be recognized so that they can coexist in peace and security,” Sánchez stressed in a week in which PP leaders such as Madrid President Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused him of being “equidistant” between Israel and Hamas. Sánchez made no allusions to a possible amnesty for the defendants in the trial and limited himself to acknowledging “the complexity of the negotiations.”
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In contrast to its left-wing partners, the PSOE described the Hamas attack as terrorist. Podemos was the warmest. The Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, proposed this Saturday that the government should refer Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court for war crimes, “in view of the attempted genocide by the State of Israel”. “in Gaza.” The IU management also sent a letter to acting Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares asking that “Spain must adopt a position in the EU that condemns the Israeli attacks, guarantees humanitarian aid and itself for the freedom of the Palestinian people.” Sumar’s spokesman Ernest Urtasun condemned the “horrible crimes of Hamas, which we have unequivocally condemned as war crimes.” “Leaving two million people without light, water and food is also a war crime,” On Friday, he criticized Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip and considered Tel Aviv’s ultimatum to be “inadmissible” in view of a foreseeable ground offensive.
To counter the criticism of the PP from its left and to remind it of the position that the right has taken on Palestine – Aid ignores Palestinian civilian victims – the socialists have recalled a vote on which the two major parties agreed on. Agreement. In November 2014, Congress, with the support of all political groups, adopted a non-legislative proposal at the initiative of the PSOE, non-binding but of enormous political importance, which urged the government of Mariano Rajoy to recognize Palestine as a state. The text, adopted with 319 votes in favor, two abstentions and one against, was the result of long negotiations in which the PP agreed to change the beginning of the text “Palestine as a state” to “call on the government to recognize Palestine as a state”. “Promoting recognition” is something that Congress had already approved, in different words, on several occasions, most recently on the occasion of the State of the Nation debate in 2011. In return, the PSOE accepted the rest of the transactional amendment to the law popular proposals in which the government invited “In all such measures, it is intended to seek coordinated action in agreement with the international community and in particular with the European Union, taking fully into account the legitimate concerns, interests and aspirations of the State of Israel”.
The Spanish parliament was the third in Europe, after the legislative chambers of the United Kingdom and Ireland, to vote in favor of recognizing Palestine as an independent state. A month earlier, Sweden became the first EU member state to do so and establish diplomatic relations. Foreign Minister José Manuel García Margallo took the floor shortly before the vote to thank the political groups for their consensus and to express the government’s hope that the historic meeting would serve to “relaunch a negotiation process that has been stalled for many years bring”. ” . Margallo also pledged that, as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Spain would “promote a dialogue for peace, security and the development of a region that has long been suffering.”
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