Davos: "THE BLOCKADE, THE VERY SINISTER BLOCKADE"

AMRE MOUSSA
Davos: "THE BLOCKADE, THE VERY SINISTER BLOCKADE"
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Davos Annual Meeting 2009
29.01.2009
Gaza: The Case for Middle East Peace

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Amre Moussa, Secretary-General, League of Arab States

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Some brackets to say that We are against
anything that would affect children,
women, civilians, even Palestinians or Israelis.
And then,
continuing to say,
that this situation in GAZA and in Palestine.
It is a situation of foreign military occupation.
So people in siege and blockade,
Gaza is living within a blockade,very severe one.
The west bank is under military occupation,
with barriers,
with colonies, that settlements.
So the Palestinians are trying to express themselves
to find a future for themselves.
You cannot ask people in Gaza,
living in starvation and hunger
because of the blockade,
the very sinister blockade.
And then,
ask them to be calm,
and ask them: "Why
do you throw stones against your occupiers?"
It is against the nature of people,
against the nature of people.
You strangle them,
You starve them.
And ask them to be quiet?
And then,
as has been discussed now,
The question of smuggling.
Of course smuggling is illegal,
illicit trade,
illicit movement of things, commodities and so on,
including perhaps arms.
You strangle them -
not a single window of opportunity -
and then,
talk to them about illicit trade.
If you want to prevent this,
you have to open the crossing points,
you have to give them food,
you have to give them water,
to give them medicine.
It is a miserable life that the Palestinians have lived
and that, until now, are living in Gaza.
Because of the blockade that Israel has imposed on them for three years now.

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Davos Annual Meeting 2009
29.01.2009
Gaza: The Case for Middle East Peace
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
Amre Moussa, Secretary-General, League of Arab States
Shimon Peres, President of Israel

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