Israeli parliament member Mossi Raz condemns eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah
"We have to let Palestinians stay in the place they have lived for the past seventy years," Raz told Geo News
May 18, 2021
- Senior Israeli parliament member Mossi Raz says Israel has to let Palestinians stay in the place they have lived for the past seventy years.
- Condemns the decision to evict Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah.
- Says a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is not easy to achieve but is still possible.
Israeli Parliament Kenesset's senior member Mossi Raz condemned Israel's decision to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah by calling the actions "unjust".
Speaking to Geo News from Jerusalem, Mossi Raz said: "We have to reverse this decision and let Palestinians stay in the place they have lived for the past seventy years."
Raz said that a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is not easy to achieve, but is still possible. The only solution to war is peace, he said.
"First and foremost, we have to stop the fight. Both sides have to stop the fight right now, he said.
Mossi Raz is an Israeli politician, who is currently a member of the Knesset for the left-wing, social-democratic, Meretz party.
Meretz is a secular party emphasising a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, social justice, and human rights. It currently has six seats in the Knesset.
He went on to stress the need of developing the Gaza Strip by letting in international investment.
"Unfortunately, people always support hardliners and their leadership in times of war. We have to uphold freedom, equality, human rights for people here and in Palestine," Raz said.
Commenting on the opposition of the United States on an immediate ceasefire, Mossi Raz said: "The reason why the US president repeatedly opposed the security council's resolution pressing for a ceasefire is that the proposed resolution, I would say, was not fair. It talked about Israel's violence but did not mention Palestine's violence."
Mossi went on to say that he was neither comparing, nor saying there is a symmetry in violence occurring on both sides. He said that he is "only trying to say that sending missiles on civilians is a war crime be it in Israel or Palestine."
