Saturday 5 December 2009

Morgantini: Israel Must End Siege, Appear Before International Court of Justice

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Louisa Morgantini

The former Vice-President of the European Union, Louisa Morgantini, said that Israel must end the siege on the Gaza Strip and that it is necessary that it appears before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
She told WAFA after a press conference held on the occasion of launching the launch of the book, ‘Palestine’s Guernica’, that Israel must cease all forms of settlement activities because they are is completely illegal, and that its decision to halt settlement activities for a period of ten months is not serious. She stated that Israel uses this method to gain more time, where it continues to throw many families in Sheikh Jarrah and other parts of East Jerusalem out of their homes, and continues the demolition of houses.

She continued: The book ‘Palestine Guernica’, which reviews and documents the events surrounding the recent war on Gaza last December and its associated events, which took place before, during and after, is very important to expose Israel’s policies, and hold it accountable for them.
The book launched by the Palestinian Monitor was named ‘Palestine’s Guernica’ after the massacre committed by the Fascists led by Franco in 1937, in the town of Guernica in the Basque, which killed hundreds of civilians by aerial bombardment, in a manner similar to what happened in the Gaza Strip, where the objective was not only to kill the massacre of civilians, but also to kill the human spirit and the spirit of resistance in the Palestinian people.


Illustration: Ben Heine
Morgantini said, in a press conference held on the occasion of launching of the book, that understanding the meaning of Guernica is very similar to what happened in Gaza, Deir Yassin, and Jenin before.
She added: This work is very important, and it must reach every individual in the world to expose Israel’s plan of destruction, aimed at putting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in a ‘cage’.
She pointed out that the book explains exactly what happened, where Gazans could do nothing but stay during the bombardment, because they did not have anywhere to go in the prison in which they live.
She emphasized that Israel cannot remain above international law, and it was time for the hypocrisy of the international community to end, and to stop talking about human rights without doing anything about the violations occurred.

She said the report of the Goldstone is only the beginning, there is a change happening on the ground, and we have to make Israel pay the price for its actions, saying: ‘We have to start by saying to Israel: Enough is enough, you cannot stay above the law and you must pay the price’.

She talked about her intention to participate in the march of freedom and peace to Rafah, aimed at breaking the siege on the Gaza Strip at the end of December.
She also expressed hope that the Palestinian people, whom she described as the people of miracles because their survival, steadfastness and resistance are a miracle, can achieve the miracle of unity.
She stressed the importance of the Draft Resolution to recognize a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, which will be presented to the European Parliament on Monday. She said she was hopeful that draft will be adopted. However, she said that the mere existence of such a project is important, even though the adopting it is not certain.
She said that Palestinians have the right to declare of their rights, if Israel continues its policies, and added that this project is linked to Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s two-year plan to end the occupation and establish a Palestinian state.
For his part, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the National Initiative said that the goal of this book is to document these chapters of the lives of Palestinians and to expose the crimes of Israel in front of the world.
He added that this book is part of the Palestinians’ narration to their story, and part of restoring the humanitarian image of the Palestinian people and the legitimacy of their existence.
Source: http://english.wafa.ps/?action=detail&id=13452

December 4, 2009 Posted by Elias

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