In 2019, as section of the launch of the municipal campaign, a collective had publicly questioned the candidates to dedicate to the creation of a twinning amongst Gaza and Marseille.
Gaza is a Palestinian town on the shores of the Mediterranean, landlocked for decades, which currently only has electricity for a couple hours a day, which no for a longer time has consuming h2o and which Tsahal bombards regularly. The French Jewish Union for Peace has managed to install a drinking water tower there, but solidarity actions are typically lowered to zero by the Israeli armed forces.
Final May well Palestine 13 and the Palestine in Resistance collective (supported in unique by the CCFD, the French Jewish Union for Peace, the Human Legal rights League, the peace movement, BDS and many other companies) organized a day for climate justice from Marseille to Gaza in the presence of various Palestinian activists, who have been obtained in the town corridor. Numerous deputies attended the reception and the solidarity day in person. But neither the mayor nor the international assistant could be present and the push gave little visibility to the celebration.
Regarding the twinning, we made it clear to individuals who requested it that it was tricky, even extremely hard, and that, in any scenario, it would not be submitted to the Metropolis Council.
On 19 August, the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, went to Kiev to go to a assembly with associates of seven other main European cities. There he met with President Zelensky. He signed a memorandum of understanding for the sustainable reconstruction of Ukrainian cities. He manufactured the Marins-Pompiers de Marseille accessible for this reconstruction. All of this help, of program, comes in addition to the billions of dollars presently allocated by the US, the European Union and other international locations.
Solidarity is specially good for combating a felony injustice committed by a excellent place that tramples on the freedom and lifetime of the Ukrainian people today.
But we can talk to ourselves questions when solidarity flows freely on a single side and on the other we near our eyes on a country that has suffered the exact criminal offense for many a long time.
The plan of the Israeli governing administration has been described as apartheid by Amnesty Global, B’Tselem (Israeli NGO) and Human Legal rights View.
Given that Mr. Payan has urgently signed the twinning with Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, even using his time, he can and should even now acquire care of solidarity with Gaza.
Bombing destruction brings about the identical harm in the two circumstances.
Jacques SONCIN.
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