Friday, February 11, 2011

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Boycott of Israel to achieve sovereignty and peace in Palestine

Boycott Israel to achieve sovereignty and peace in Palestine
Interview with Maren Mantovani
ACTIVIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST APARTHEID WALL Palestinian National Committee Member for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BNC)
Franklin
Falconi Palestine today?
In our organization we start with three lines of analysis about what is happening in Palestine, there is given an occupation, colonization and apartheid. Not that there are two states that are fighting, since Israel was created on Palestinian land 60 years ago, there is a continuous process of colonization and ethnic cleansing. He threw 75% of the indigenous Palestinian population from their lands. There is still 23% of Israeli citizens are Palestinians, since 1948, stayed there and the Israelis have failed to remove them. At this time have been destroyed over 500 Palestinian communities daily. With the war of occupation, since 1967, Israel turns over the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The construction of the wall began in 2002, the establishment of Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas, and over 600 military checkpoints in the West Bank have left only with 13% of territory. The Palestinians are gradually without land, without water, without the possibility of trading products between a village and another, to reach the West Bank to Gaza is impossible. West Bank is 10 kilometers from the sea, people see it, but it can access it by the presence of the wall.
What about the alleged impending recognition of a Palestinian state through final status to be signed by Israel in the month
September?
I do not see the possibility of such recognition for any side, the Israeli government has no interest to recognize the Palestinian state, especially with the boundaries of 67 years, this is an explicit policy of the Foreign Ministry. The peace process do not see it either. There is really no negotiations and international pressure to achieve that purpose.
Currently there is a movement in South America to recognize the Palestinian state, is symbolic, but it is important for Palestinian rights.
But in Palestine there are state institutions, what is the role?
If you have un Estado, hay un territorio, una economía, una soberanía, tú puedes cambiar instituciones, en fin, eso no tiene Palestina, no tiene una economía soberana, no tiene una moneda; utiliza la moneda israelí, todo lo que se comercia está controlado por Israel. Lo que se ha creado es una administración para la población, un servicio de asistencia social. Vivimos una situación en la que ni las autoridades pueden cruzar de un lugar a otro de Palestina sin permiso de los militares israelíes.
¿Cómo llegar entonces a la conquista del territorio, de un Estado soberano, y a la paz? Además del llamado al boicot y sanciones para Israel, que es This raises our movement BNC, we propose the evacuation of Palestinian territory, to the colonies, the end of the wall and the equality of Palestinian citizens. Because there is an apartheid created by Israel, there are more than 20 laws which state that the Palestinians do not have the same rights, Israeli society does not accept the Palestinian people. If these rights are achieved, in one way or another, then we will talk about achieving peace.
Why there is no serious international response against Israel?

There are many commitments, for example, in the arms, between 75 and 80% of Israel's arms production is for export, have a large market and that market is in the South. The largest importer of arms from Israel is India, then there is Turkey, but negotiations were blocked after the attack on "freedom flotilla" occurred in October 2010 and whose crew were mostly of this country. The next destination is Brazil and then Colombia. Ecuador also is very involved, not only on imports of arms but also military relations and training from Israel.
South If these countries decided to block the arms trade, in six months we would have peace in Palestine. We ask that you not allow the money from the Ecuadorian and of the peoples of South America, is used to pay for Israeli weapons, weapons used against the Palestinian people and Arabs in general. The Israeli market is too small, therefore, all weapons have this fate, if you do not buy no market.

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