The Sumar party, an ally of Spanish acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the country’s future government, called out the EU’s ‘double standards’ on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Monday.
Sumar spokesman Ernest Urtasun stated at a press conference in Madrid that Israel is “an occupying force” and lamented that the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, “never condemns the war crimes committed by Israel”, Euractiv’s partner EFE reported.
Urtasun stressed that Sumar defends international law and human rights and that Hamas attacks have violated these rights, “but nobody ever says anything about the systematic violation of rights by Israel”, he added.
Urtasun did not want to comment on the backing given by incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to Israel and only pointed out that his criticism is directed above all against the European Union, pointing out the “hypocrisy of those who condemn Hamas attacks but do not condemn Israel’s attacks”.
The European Union, he stressed, must be involved in the solution to the conflict based on two states, and the Palestinian state should be viable, “but it (the EU) is not doing so as it should”, he concluded.
(Fernando Heller | EuroEFE.Euractiv.es)
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