Escalation of the aggressiveness of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people

Brussels, 16/10/2012

The MEP of the KKE, Giorgos Toussas, in his intervention to the Council of the European Union denounced the aggressiveness of Israel against the Palestinian people and its provocative intransigence against the rightful struggle for the termination of the occupation and the creation of an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, as well as the risks of a war spreading in the wider region, on the grounds of imperialist antagonisms.

The MEP of the KKE underlined the following in his intervention:

“The aggressiveness of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people and its provocative intransigence against its rightful struggle for the termination of the occupation and the creation of an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, was manifested once more in the speech of the Israeli prime minister, B. Netanyahu, in the recent UN General Assembly, with the support of the USA and the EU.

The criminal activity of the Israeli occupation army is escalating with murderous attacks against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories.

The imperialist competitions increase the risks of a war spreading with disastrous consequences for the peoples of the wider region.

On the grounds of these competitions, the EU systematically upgrades its political, financial - trade and military relations with Israel, in the framework of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel, as well as with the accession of Israel in the Single European Sky.

With a recent decision of the Council of the EU, there was a protocol annexed to the Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement between the European Communities and Israel, which provides the context for products from the occupied Palestinian territories can be exported as Israeli products to the EU member states.

This EU-Israel agreement practically constitutes a direct recognition and legitimization of the Israeli occupation and the crimes against the Palestinian people.

The Council is asked:

Is it going to pursue this policy of support to Israel against the Palestinian people and its rightful struggle for the termination of the occupation and the creation of an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state, at the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, for the demolition of the unacceptable wall, the liberation of the Palestinian political prisoners in Israel and for the right of return of all the Palestinian refugees to their homes, according the relevant UN resolutions?”