Schlein: “No to weapons in Israel”. Government and opposition outraged
“We must ask ourselves the question of avoiding fueling these conflicts, of avoiding sending weapons and exporting weapons to conflicts, towards the conflict in the Middle East, particularly in this case Israel. Because you can’t risk that weapons are used to commit what may be considered war crimes.” The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, said this at the end of the seminar for the deputies of the Democratic Party. A sentence that effectively breaks down the hesitations so far on the position regarding what is happening between Israel and Gaza.
“Europe must make its contribution regarding peace, otherwise it will be condemned to irrelevance. The ceasefire is the condition to be able to free the Hamas prisoners and start a path that leads to a two-people, two-state solution. It’s a shame that the People’s Party in Europe made that ceasefire impossible with an amendment that contains conditions that are impossible to achieve. For us the ceasefire must be immediate, we have been saying this since October”he added.
Controversy from both the majority and the opposition. “The words spoken by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, regarding the sending of weapons to Israel they are not only unacceptable, but unquestionably shameful. They are so in light of the fact that they appear to deny the acts of unprecedented violence perpetrated by Hamas. An anti-historical and anti-Western judgment, that expressed by Schlein, which confirms his ability to espouse the theses of an extreme left now reduced to nothing. A conflict like the one that is tormenting the Middle East cannot in any way be treated with such approximation.” This was declared by the Brothers of Italy group in the Chamber of Deputies.
“The position that Elly Schlein wants the Democratic Party to take on foreign and security policy issues seems to go in the direction of a continuous, as well as politically suicidal, chasing the maximalism of the 5 Stars”. Thus on his social media Senator Enrico Borghi, group leader in the Senate of Italia Viva.
“The attack carried out today against Israel on the sending of weapons, which is also prohibited by our law, which prohibits trade in weapons with countries at war, is worrying for the political imbalance that is intended to be achieved, moving from the traditional and balanced policy since held here, to pursue identity, minority and factional positions. Joining one of the factions, instead of working politically to find a solution, ultimately does not help the peace process. Which proceeds with politics and not with slogans. And for us Aldo Moro’s lesson on ‘active equidistance’ is always valid: Italy must work to invite the Arab world to recognize Israel as a state entity with which to negotiate, and at the same time work to avoid the extremism of the Israeli political class” , he concludes.
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