Alexandra Leitão says that Israel has the right to defend itself, but the socialist deputy emphasizes, on the other hand, that the Israeli Government must respect humanitarian law and international law. Israel’s response to the Gaza Strip was the subject of debate on the program O Princípio da Incerteza, on TSF and CNN Portugal.
“Israel has the right to defend itself and I think it is even normal for the population of Israel to demand a kind of law of retaliation, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and to demand a proportionate reaction to the carnage that has occurred,” considers the socialist. .
However, Alexandra Leitão maintains that “a proportional reaction to the massacre that occurred would imply an absolutely disproportionate intervention that would have the effect of violating the laws of war, international law and humanitarian law.”
“Therefore, what we all have to ask of Israel today, and Israel, in order not to be equal, must comply: react and defend itself, but do so within the limits of international law and within the limits of humanitarian law,” he emphasizes.
For António Lobo Xavier, only the United States is capable of moderating the conflict in the Middle East. The former CDS leader fears that Israel will lose its moral authority with the response it is preparing to give to Hamas with an attack on the Gaza Strip.
“I think the United States is the only country capable of moderating and containing the severity of this conflict, I think they are doing well, putting pressure on Israel to ensure that there are humanitarian conditions, humanitarian corridors, water and electricity. These are typical activities or actions achieved by the United States, but I really fear the worst. I fear that Israel will lose that moral authority. This Netanyahu government has transformed the moral authority of the people of Israel, because there have already been indiscriminate attacks against Palestinians. civilians in the West Bank that are comparable, no in size, but in very comparable situations, absolutely unacceptable,” he says.
Pacheco Pereira recognizes that no solution is easy to resolve this conflict.
“Groups like Hamas cannot be eliminated by going there to kill one by one. First of all, they cannot kill one by one, then there is a part of the leaders that is outside this conflict zone, then there are the countries that support these groups and Hamas.” has some support among the population of the Gaza Strip, as do other groups in the Palestinian Authority area, for the simple reason that they were the ones who paid attention to a very significant welfare concern. What is certain is that for a population that “has nothing more than some help from the United Nations, these groups provided a minimum of assistance from the point of view of medicine and housing conditions. There is no good solution to what will happen in the coming decades,” he argues.
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