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  • 200 parliamentarians from Israel’s top military allies call for immediate arms embargo
    1 March 2024 10:33 GMT | Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/200-parliamentarians-israels-top-military-allies-call-immediate-arms

    Two hundred parliamentarians from Israel’s top military allies, including Australia, France, the UK and the US, have signed a letter calling on their states to end their arms sales to Israel.

    “We will not be complicit in Israel’s grave violation of international law,” the letter reads. “The ICJ ordered Israel not to kill, harm or ’deliberately [inflict] on the [Palestinians| conditions of life calculated to bring about... physical destruction’. They have refused.”

    The signatories include US representatives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush, UK former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and leader of the Australian Green Party Adam Brandt, among others.

    Progressive International
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    https://twitter.com/ProgIntl/status/1763505031482102022

    BREAKING 🇵🇸 200 parliamentarians across Israel’s top military partners unite to end their countries’ arms sales to Israel. “We will not be complicit in Israel’s grave violation of international law.”

    • Politicians from 12 countries unite to press for arms ban on Israel
      Letter aims to bring public anger over 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into heart of parliaments
      Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor | Fri 1 Mar 2024
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/politicians-from-12-countries-unite-to-press-for-arms-ban-on-israel

      More than 200 MPs from 12 countries have committed themselves to trying to persuade their governments to impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, arguing they will not be complicit in “Israel’s grave violation of international law” in its assault on Gaza.

      The letter, organised by Progressive International, is seen as the best practical measure possible to bring public anger over the 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into the heart of parliaments, where calls for an immediate unconditional ceasefire have so far fallen on deaf ears or been rejected by national governments.

      The organisers believe governments supplying arms are vulnerable to legal challenges given the scale of devastation in Gaza that they say extends beyond any definition of self-defence or proportionality.

      The signatories are all MPs in parliaments where the governments allow arms sales to Israel. Nine are current or former leaders of political parties, including the former UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn; the leader of the Green party in the Australian senate, Larissa Waters; the coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard; the president of the Workers’ party of Belgium, Peter Mertens; the Canadian MP and member of the PI Council, Niki Ashton; the Brazilian congressman Nilto Tatto; the former leader of Die Linke, Bernd Riexinger; the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra; the leader of the Dutch Socialist party, Jimmy Dijk; the Irish teachta dála (member of parliament), Thomas Pringle; and the former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic party, Sezai Temelli. The sole signatory from the US is the Michigan congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib.

      The action by the parliamentarians is supported by the founder of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Spanish government minister Pablo Bustinduy and the prominent Indian politician Jignesh Mevani. (...)

    • 1 mars 2024
      « Nous ne serons pas complices de la violation du droit international par Israël »
      https://blogs.mediapart.fr/internationale-progressiste/blog/010324/nous-ne-serons-pas-complices-de-la-violation-du-droit-international-

      Plus de 200 législateurs de 13 pays s’unissent pour s’opposer aux exportations d’armes provenant de leur pays à destination d’Israël.

      Nous, les parlementaires signataires de cette lettre, déclarons notre engagement à mettre fin aux ventes d’armes de nos nations à l’État d’Israël.

      Nos bombes et nos balles ne doivent pas être utilisées pour tuer, mutiler et déposséder les Palestiniens. Mais c’est le cas : nous savons que des armes mortelles et leurs pièces détachées, fabriquées ou expédiées par nos pays, contribuent actuellement à l’assaut israélien contre la Palestine, qui a fait plus de 30 000 morts à Gaza et en Cisjordanie.

      Nous ne pouvons pas attendre. À la suite de l’arrêt provisoire rendu par la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) dans l’affaire de la Convention sur le génocide contre l’État d’Israël, l’embargo sur les armes n’est plus une nécessité morale, mais une obligation légale.

      Nous ne nous rendrons pas complices des graves violations du droit international commises par Israël. La CIJ a ordonné à Israël de ne pas tuer, blesser ou « [infliger] délibérément aux [Palestiniens] des conditions d’existence visant… leur destruction physique ». Israël a refusé. Au lieu de cela, ils poursuivent l’assaut prévu sur Rafah qui, selon le secrétaire général des Nations unies, « augmentera de façon exponentielle ce qui est déjà un cauchemar humanitaire ».

      Aujourd’hui, nous prenons position. Nous allons prendre des mesures immédiates et coordonnées dans nos assemblées législatives respectives pour empêcher nos pays d’armer Israël.
      (...)