Gazaの虐殺を止める為に
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2024/03/04 21:46
転送歓迎
想いを語りて世に現しませう。
Gazaの虐殺を止めるために各地の輸送労働者がイスラエル宛の軍需品の運送を拒否しているそうです。
それを更に広げようと呼びかけているのがIsraelの平和活動家Adam Kellerさん達の声明です。私もこ
れに全面的に賛成です。
二年前ロシアは当初ウクライナの首都キーウを数日で落とす計画でしたが、それを阻んだ要因の一つは
べラルースの輸送労働者の妨害だったそうです。この運動が広がれば世界は平和になると思います。
少し長いですがご参考までに転送します。
An appropriate and praiseworthy response to the carnage:
Trade unionists refusing to load munitions for Israel's war in Gaza
Note: We have gotten used to terrible news coming out of the Gaza Strip virtually every day. Still,
now there is a record new low point when we thought we already reached rock bottom: the news of
more than a hundred Ganzs being killed within minutes for the sole crime of being desperately
hungry and trying to get to the truck carrying some of the far too scarce humanitarian supplies
reaching the ruined city of Gaza.
The Israeli Army asserted that most of them were not killed directly by the soldiers' shots, but rather
were trampled in the panicked stampede. This might or might not be true - pending an objective
investigation which will probably never be made, the exact circumstances cannot be clarified. It
scarcely matters. It is Israel which consciously and deliberately created the dire humanitarian crisis
in Gaza, the Gazans' desperate need for food. Killed directly by Israeli soldiers or killed while trying
to get to the food which Israel denies to them - either way, the blood is entirely on Israel's hands.
A few days before this new tragedy and atrocity, I and Yossi Schwartz - a fellow activist whom I have
known and respected for many years - decided to draft and publish the following joint statement.
Despite deep agreements about the long range solution to the bleeding conflict tearing up this
country, we have hardly any difference about the current horror in Gaza.
We have hammered out all details of the text, in a friendly discussion and minor debate with each
other and with other fellow activists.
We had the final text prepared and ready to be unleashed just as this new piece of terrible news came
- which of course makes our text all the more relevant and urgent. This statement is intended, in
principle, for anyone in the world who cares about what happens in Gaza - but in particular, it is
intended for anyone who is in any way involved in a trade union, most especially for anyone who
might in some way influence the union's decision making process.
Adam Keller
Joint Statement
The United States has a long-standing policy of providing Israel with massive amounts of military
aid (which incidentally provides enormous profits to the American armament industries). This was
greatly expanded and intensified since the outbreak of the current war in Gaza.
The constant flow of munitions from the United States - and to a lesser degree, from other Western
countries - is completely indispensable for Israel to sustain its war. Israel's own armament industry
could in no way provide for a massive bombing campaign, in which Israel in a few months threw far
more bombs on a very narrow and overcrowded strip of land than what the US itself did over years of
war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Supplying arms to Israel has been traditionally justified as "helping Israel defend itself" and anyone
objecting to it was castigated as "wanting Israelis to be exposed to danger"'. However, the war which
Israel launched - ostensibly as a response to the deadly Hamas attack on Israeli communities and
military outposts on October 7, 2023 - was soon revealed to have not the slightest resemblance to any
kind of "self defence", and it was never meant to be such.
Rather, it is a completely unrestrained rampage, an orgy of killing and wanton destruction. Under a
constant barrage of enormous one-ton bombs - of which a constant supply is provided to Israel by the
boatload - schools, universities, Mosques (and some Churches), libraries, public buildings of any kind
and most of the private houses in the Gaza Strip were destroyed or greatly damaged. The city of
Gaza was left in ruins, as were many smaller towns and villages. Thirty thousand Palestinians were
killed, including more than ten thousand children, and the death toll continues to rise. A million and
half people were driven out of their homes, to live in horrifying conditions under the open sky.
The International Court in the Hague, the highest tribunal set up to deal with violations of
International Law, met to hear South Africa's charge that Israel's acts in the Gaza Strip may
culminate in actual genocide - the most terrible of all crimes. Sixteen out of eighteen judges
- prominent jurists of various countries and backgrounds - were unanimous in taking very seriously
the danger of genocide in the Gaza Strip. Specifically, The Interantional Court found it plausible that
Israel’s acts could amount to genocide and issued six provisional measures: ordering Israel to take all
steps within its power to prevent genocidal acts, including preventing and punishing incitement to
genocide, ensuring aid and services reach Palestinians under siege in Gaza, and preserving evidence
of crimes committed in Gaza.
The response of Israeli civil and military leaders was to make preparations for an all-out assault on
the city of Rafah - the very place to which Israel had driven, in earlier stages of the war, a million and
half Gazans displaced from their homes. Israeli leaders persist in making preparations for such an
assault on Rafah, even though Israel's own allies warn that this may lead to a terrible carnage and
an untold humanitarian disaster. Yet President Biden's making such dire predictions has not made
him stop the constant supply of arms and munitions to Israel.
It was under these terrible circumstances that the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
(PGFTU) issued an urgent appeal calling on "trade unions in relevant industries" to refuse to build
weapons destined for Israel as well as refusing to transport such weapons. Some unions in various
countries did respond to that call. For example, five Belgian transport unions issued a joint
statement saying they were refusing to load or unload arms shipments heading to the war zone, and
the Barcelona dock workers’ union announced that it "would not permit activity, in our port, of ships
containing war materiel," and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
We the undersigned, Israeli citizens and activists in political organizations, who are shocked and
horrified by the acts of the Israeli government and armed forces, and who want to see a future of
brotherhood between Israelis and Palestinians, regard the above acts by Belgian and Catalan trade
unions as an appropriate and praiseworthy response to the terrible carnage in Gaza. We call on all
other trade unions worldwide to emulate that example, refuse to build weapons intended for Israel
and to load or unload such weapons.
Adam Keller for Gush Shalom
Yossi Schwartz for the ISL, RCIT section in Israel/ Occupied Palestine
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