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According to him, this attitude towards the conflict in the Middle East is “only for geostrategic interests, because the United States of America supports Israel, and Europe supports Israel. We have privileged economic agreements with Israel which help the apartheid system.”
Concerning the Belgian attitude towards this war, “I find that Belgium is moving in the right direction, under popular pressure and from the PTB, but I find that it is not enough and that sanctions must be taken.”
“I immediately condemned the terrorist crimes of Hamas, I just said that Israel was more terrorist. I said that what Hamas does are war crimes. We cannot understand without analyzing everything the context in Israel and Palestine. The oppression of the Palestinian people for 20 or 30 years is illegitimate. We have 260 tons of weapons in transit through the port of Antwerp to Israel. Normally UN resolutions make this illegal , yet in Belgium it is possible.
Pour Raoul Hedebouw “we must end the war and have a ceasefire, there can only be a political and inclusive solution in the region.”
Regarding the position of the PTB on the subject of the war in Ukraine, Raoul Hedebouw specifies: “From the start we denounced the Russian invasion”. PTB MP Sofie Merckx said that “we condemned Putin, she just said that Zelensky, as he was now leading the war, was not going to lead to peace, and that we had to negotiate and have a ceasefire. It’s not my fault if some people believe that by arming Ukraine we would achieve peace. We are entering a war like in 14-18 which will be a trench war. From the start we needed a political solution to the situation on the ground and not play into the hands of the Americans who said that Ukraine had to be fully armed.”
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