[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] The silence and indolence - by Luisa Morgantini

Sun Nov 12 07:42:40 CST 2006

Hi all, I believe that we in US WILPF need to get more
critical of US and Israeli policies against any viable
solution to the occupation of Palestine. With the help
of the US government Israel is committing "terrorist"
acts and not being held accountable. How many years
has it taken to divide Palestine into two parts, the
Gaza and West Bank while the Israeli government and
the settlements continue to take Palestinian land,
water, economical and health viability while enclosing
the Palestinans off from their love ones with walls
and fences? When are we going to stop comparing
Palestinian violence with that of the State of Israel
and United States of America? When are we going to
realize that the incarceration of males over the age
of 15 years old in Palestine and Iraq will bring peace
and justice? When will the US government learn that
transferring Israeli tactics in the invasion of Iraq
did not help win over the hearts and minds of the
Iraqi people only identify US collaborators? When an
animal is trapped by a predator it often tries
anything to escape but usually agressiveness and might
wins. So many  innocent people of Israel, Palestine
and Iraq have been mentally and physically
damaged.What has happened to the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights this world. I believe that we must
stop pandering to the agressors. Letting go of anger,
violence and hate FOR love hugs and peace Yvonne.
> ----- 
> From: MORGANTINI Luisa  - 
> lmorgantini at europarl.eu.int
> 
> 
>   
> The silence and indolence of the International
> Community
> by
> 
> Luisa Morgantini
> 
>    Member of the European Parliament
> 
>  Pubblished  on the Italian newspaper
> 
> "Liberazione"  02.11.06
> 
> 
> 
> The Israeli government must be stopped, the EU
> should suspend the economic agreements, the Italian
> government should revoke the military agreements and
> those on security stipulated with Israel, the UN
> should impose the respect of the UN resolutions and
> of the international legality.
> 
> The unilateral and military Israeli policy only
> leads to its own moral and political disater, beside
> inflicting unbearable suffering, humiliation and
> collective punishment to the palestinian population.
> After Lebanon, it came across the hypothesis of an
> international force in Gaza. Well, this must be done
> to protect the palestinian and israeli populations.
> The time has come. 
> 
> Yesterday, during the meeting of the Israeli
> Security Council, the new Minister of Russian
> origins  Libermann, famous for his racism and
> fascism (he supports the deportation of all the
> palestinians, including of those who are Israeli
> citizens), seems to have said that the Israeli army
> should behave in Gaza as the russians in Checheny;
> but actually the israeli army doesn't need to
> imitate anybody, its actions and those of its
> generals must be presented in front of International
> Court for War Crimes.
> 
> Two days ago, while with a delegation of 12 members
> of the European Parliament belonging to all
> political parties, we were leaving Gaza from Eretz
> border, the Israeli bombs were falling on the
> village of Beit Hanoun. While we were watching the
> industrial area of Gaza, just four days ago crumbled
> up by the Israeli bulldozers, we could clearly see
> the helicopters aiming at Beit Hanoun.
> 
> Our driver was ashen. Together with other 25
> families he had left his house in Beit Hanoun at the
> end of August because the Israelis had informed them
> that they would have bombed them. Now he lives with
> his ten children and his wife in a rented house in
> Gaza, and he told us that for him every day is "like
> waiting to die". 
> 
> Palestinian business men and traders were telling us
> how the demolitions and the bombings that destroyed
> houses, bridges, roads, the electric power station
> and all the infrastructures, together with the
> closure of Karni and Rafah check points are impeding
> all the import and export of palestinian goods, not
> to mention the movement of people, and that all this
> is leading to a dramatic economic and humanitarian
> disaster in the Gaza strip, but also in the West
> Bank. The cost of the imported goods in Gaza is now
> higher than in any other european country, the black
> market is growing and so is the smuggling, both with
> Israel and Egypt.
> 
> The employees of the pubIic sector, more than
> 150.000 in all Palestine, have not been receiving
> their salaries for more than 8 months now. The funds
> would be available if only Israel gave back the
> custom duties that they confiscated to the
> Palestinian Authority. The EU and the Quartet,
> instead of imposing on Israel to pay back the custom
> duties (trying as usual to solve the political issue
> through humanitarian aid), introduced the Temporary
> International Mechanism (TIM), in order to relieve
> the more needy cases, but has created a
> discriminating mechanism among the workers; in fact,
> only the employees of the health and education
> sector received some allowances, while nothing was
> given to all the others, including the police, who
> should guarantee internal security, but if not
> payed, risks to give way to corruption. 
> 
> In the Al Shifa hospital of Gaza we saw the torn
> bodies of women, men, children and elderlies. The
> doctors are calling for an international
> investigation, since the wounds seems to be caused
> by phosphorus and chemical weapons. The hospital is
> in shortage of medications and it is not equipped to
> treat such injuries. Carcer or terminally ill
> patients cannot recieve anymore treatment in Cairo
> or Israel for the closure of the borders.
> 
> This is an umbearable situation, a humanitarian
> collaps, and a massacre of civilians happening with
> the silence and indolence of the International
> Community.
> 
> There are 10.500 political prisoners in a population
> of 3.500.000. Among them 400 are young boys and
> girls, more than 200 are women, and 1500 have been
> confined for years in administrative detention
> without a regular trial.
> 
> The palestinian political forces seem not to have a
> strategy. The internal fight between Hamas and Fatah
> is not only political since it often leads to
> military fights, bringing insecurty for all. The
> effort for the establishment of national unity
> government is constantly undermined by internal
> power struggles, and most of all by the siege, by
> the Israeli policies and the american interferences.
>  
> 
> The political factions that we met, with no
> discrimination since our delegation recognizes the
> freely and democratically elected palestinians
> institutions, have reaffirmed that they will not
> give way to the civil war, that they will reach an
> agreement based upon the national reconciliation
> document and the 21 points document of the political
> prisoners, strongly wished for by Marwan Barghouti.
> The document recognizes the authority of the PLO,
> the signed agreements and the palestinian state on
> the 1967 borders. The three requests of the
> International Community for the reopening of the
> relations with the Palestinian Authority, together
> with the cease fire that Hamas is respecting, are
> implicit.  This is the only way for the reopening of
> the negotiations. Meanwhile Mahmoud Abbas is being
> pressurized to adopt unilateral decisions, which
> could be dreadful for the democracy and the future
> of the palestinian people.
> 
> It is up to us, political and social forces, to act
> in order to avoid this, and to put an end to the
> israeli policy of military occupation and to the
> isolation of the palestinians.
> 
> Will our italian government manage to carry on with
> the strategy undertaken for Lebanon, and to urgently
> call for an international force to be deployd to
> protect the civilian population and to convene an
> international conference for a just peace in the
> region? But the massacre of the palestinians must be
> stopped now.
> 
> 
> 
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