Within the framework of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, the House of Representatives held an extraordinary session on Wednesday where it discussed the issue and in which the different positions of legislators regarding the historical conflict involving Israel and Palestine could be seen. .
The first to speak was the communist, Ubaldo Aíta. He said that “this date is a good opportunity to show that the Palestinian situation remains unresolved and the Palestinian people continue to be unable to exercise their inalienable rights. The right to return and to build in peace, recognized by said General Assembly of the United Nations“. “When more than half a century has passed since the General Assembly of the United Nations that convenes us today, the situation in Palestine, far from having improved, can only be described as dramatic. Every day, every hour, the human rights of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are violated by Israel and United Nations provisions are violated. You constantly see the murder of girls and boys, of Palestinian journalists, but they are also forcibly arrested. Israel illegally occupies Palestinian territories, establishes illegal settlements, builds walls that separate families“, he asserted.
The General Assembly of the United Nations to which Aíta refers is from 1947 when resolution 181 was approved, later known as the “partition resolution”, which stipulated the creation of a “Jewish State” and a ” Arab State” in Palestine, something that only happened with Israel.
For his part, the nationalist deputy Sebastián Andújar said that when speaking of Palestine “It is difficult to get away from the territorial, social, political and religious conflict that it has had and has with the State of Israel throughout its history.. It is a good time to remember the concept of peace, freedom, independence. Y that means compliance with human rights throughout the territory“, he assured.
“The concept of peace as a desired situation, in the sense that the absence of conflicts, territorial disputes and the horror suffered by wars is sought,” he added. “Violence cannot be an option to achieve goals,” she said. “To recognize the existence of a state is to recognize the constituent elements that define it. A territory, a population, a government. The UN Assembly has to do with the recognition of that State,” she said. “This date is to remember that the situation in Palestine has not been fully resolved.“, he assured.
For his part, Frente Adel Mirza said that since “1947 it has been a period of repression, prosecution and the suppression of the rights of the Palestinian people.” “Thousands of people in jails, without eating. Systematic bombardments and threats and hundreds of checkpoints that divide and separate cities. In short, death and destruction as a strategy for the gradual and incremental annihilation of the Palestinian identity, which unequivocally demonstrates the character of apartheid israeli regime“.
On the other hand, Micaela Melgar said that Palestinian women suffer multiple exploitations due to their gender condition and the occupation of Israel that has determined a lot of policies of exclusion, siege and subordination. The level of gruesomeness means that the demolition of Palestinian houses as a punitive form forces people to destroy their own houses as a form of degradation. Everything is left to the homeless woman,” she said.
In response to the Frente Amplio interventions, the Colorado deputy, Gustavo Zubía, said he was “surprised by the virulence of the session.” “Suffering, conflict, death and violence are current themes in the Middle East, not now. One of the most devastated areas on the planet by this type of conflict. But it is one thing to show solidarity with a people in a conflict that goes further beyond the borders between Palestine and Israel that has developed in recent years, but also suffers violence that we would not want for any of our peoples.But going from there to prosecuting the terms extermination, persecution, terrorism, of Israel’s warlike activity seems inappropriate to me.“.
“Today I did not expect these judgments, It would have to encourage the Uruguayan State to break relations with the State of Israel, echoing as the Chamber the qualifications that were expressed here. There has been an armed conflict for decades. Israel was on the verge of extinction when various Arab states operated an armed conflict with the vision of eradicating the Middle East.“, he claimed.
Deputy Felipe Schipani also said that he did not expect a commemoration session to become “a session attacking a State that Uruguay has recognized from its origins.” “Frankly we believe that this is not the time to discuss these issues. We have been surprised and we, in order not to incur what we criticize, are not going to respond to the falsehoods that have been said“, finished.
