WILPF Condemns Israel's Use of Collective Punishment and Illegal Detention
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section calls upon the US government to unequivocally condemn Israeli use of collective punishment and illegal detention.
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Talking Points
-- We support the call for both sides to "step back from the brink".
-- WILPF has always condemned all violence, including State violence. We join former Israeli Foreign Ministry Shlomo Ben-Ami and the Israeli peace movement, along with voices from around the world, in condemning Israel's latest incursion into Gaza.
-- As a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and a resident of the United States, I insist that my government work towards a peaceful end of the Israel / Palestinian conflict by recognizing that Israel's bombing of Palestinian infrastructure and civilian areas, its imprisonment of democratically-chosen PA cabinet members, and threats to murder Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria are "actions of violence and terror."
-- The US government needs to recognize that Israel caused the current escalation of violence and the US government must work to end Israel's illegal use of force and insist that Israel release the politicians it arrested, immediately stop its military incursion in the Gaza Strip, and use the international legal system to bring alleged terrorists to justice, rather than assuming the right to assassinate people.
Go to wilpf.org for the entire action alert.
posted by C.J. Minster at
4:44 PM
1 Comments:
Israel are wrong in punishing all of the people living in Gaza. It is mass punishment which is totally wrong.
Under the geneva convetion by blowing up the power station and other roads they are possibly commiting war crimes.
The situation keeps escaliting becuase each time one side does something bad, the other one does something twice as bad. This will continue until one side realises this.
At the end of the day it is the innocnet people on both sides who will suffer the consequences of these actions from both sides.
Israel do not help themselves in situations like these.
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