[WCUSP] [womeninblack] P/R LET'S RECOGNISE OUR FAILURE: WE ARE COMPLICIT IN THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE

[yvonne simmons]

>Luisa Morgantini is a long time WIB Italian activist
who I know and greatly respect from Rome. Samir knows
her from her visits toIsrael. In peace Yvonne.
[womeninblack] P/R LET'S RECOGNISE OUR
> FAILURE: WE ARE COMPLICIT IN
> 	THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: MORGANTINI Luisa 
> 
> 
>                      PRESS RELEASE                  
>                 
> 
> 
> by 
> 
> LUISA MORGANTINI
> 
> 
>  Vice president of the European Parliament
>                   
> 
> Let's recognise our failure: we are complicit in the
> escalation of violence. 
> 
> 
> 
> Strasbourg, 22 May 2007
> 
> 
> Israelis and Palestinians are paying the price of
> our lack of capacity to act politically with
> responsibility and justice in the Middle East.
> 
> Once again, the devastating consequences overwhelm
> the Palestinian civilians, the thousands of refugees
> in Lebanon who are facing the attacks of the
> Lebanese army. Once again the Palestinians are
> subject to collective punishment because of a group
> of extremists, enemies of the Palestinian people -
> Fatah El Islam. 
>  The European Union, the international community
> must feel morally responsible for the escalation of
> violence, morally implicated in the killing of
> helpless civilians in Gaza and in the Lebanese
> refugee camps. The risk of externalisation of the
> conflict between Israel and Palestine is the
> business of us all. It is necessary to maintain the
> autonomy of the Palestinian cause and of the rights
> of the peoples of Israel and Palestine to have two
> sovereign states, recognised and secure. The time
> for words is past: It is an indispensable duty to
> recognise our failure, that of the international
> community, of the parties, of the movements to
> uphold international law and put an end to a
> military occupation that has lasted forty years. The
> tragedy of these days was announced long ago. We've
> been repeating the slogan "Two peoples and two
> states"  since 1980, but only one state exist, the
> Israeli state, an occupying power without security.
> On the other side is an occupied people, humiliated
> and without freedom. 
> 
> Humanitarian aid from the European Union is no
> substitute for what is indispensable: a political
> solution and a transparent diplomatic effort,
> working for the unity of Palestinians and not for
> their division and able to impose respect for
> international law on the Israeli government. 
> 
> Why are we helping extremists to undermine the power
> of the national unity government?   What more must
> the Palestinian government do?
> 
> The steps that are needed now from the EU and from
> the quartet are the recognition of the Palestinian
> national unity government, which in all its
> complexity of political representation, responds to
> the conditions set by the quartet with its own
> programme and expresses the will to return to the
> negotiating table, accepting the historic
> opportunity of the Arab League peace initiative.
> Secondly, it is urgent to apply pressure on the
> Israeli government in every possible way so that it
> ceases the systematic abuse of international law;
> the unpunished target killings, the theft of land
> with the construction of the Wall, and the
> Palestinian taxes and revenues arbitrarily withheld.
> The military occupation kills every hypothesis of
> security, every hope of peace, for both the
> Palestinians and the Israelis. The Palestinians must
> recover their unity and stop their fratricidal
> fighting and do everything possible to stop the
> rocket attacks on neighbouring Israeli cities.
> Palestine is falling to pieces and with it the
> entire Middle East: the consequences of these
> injustices and for this violence will come back on
> us after they have destroyed thousands of innocent
> civilians. 
>  
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> For information Luisa Morgantini 0039 348 39 21 465
> or Office in Rome +39 06 699 50 217
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