2023-10-17 22:41:01
On October 8, 2023, a rocket launched by the Palestinian extremist organization Hamas exploded during an Israeli air strike on Gaza. (Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, October 18, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Li Jing) Chinese Communist Party Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s public statement of support for Hamas has attracted attention from the international community. Many Chinese netizens discovered that as early as 17 years ago, following receiving a “gift package” from Israel, the CCP asked Hamas to “give up violence” and “recognize Israel.”
The Palestinian extremist organization Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and killed thousands of Israelis and citizens of many countries, triggering strong condemnation from the United States and the European Union. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on the 13th that in a phone call with the Chinese Communist Party’s special envoy to the Middle East, Israel was deeply disappointed that the Chinese Communist Party did not condemn Hamas’s attack last weekend.
During a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal on the 14th, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi supported Hamas and criticized Israel’s actions as “beyond the scope of self-defense” and that the collective punishment of the Gaza people should be “stopped”, which attracted the attention of the international community.
However, Chinese netizens dug up the official statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China towards Hamas 17 years ago, in which the Chinese Communist Party asked Hamas to “give up violence.”
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s government portal, on May 30, 2006, Liu Jianchao, spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated three times at a press conference: “We call on Hamas to proceed from the fundamental interests of the Palestinian people, give up violence, recognize Israel, and accept Palestine.” agreement reached between us.”
This official statement from the Chinese Communist Party is very rare. The CCP has always claimed that it “always supports the Palestinian national cause” and demands that Israel return the West Bank and Gaza Strip and allow the Palestinian state to be established.
The background of Liu Jianchao’s above speech is that Israel officially recognized “China’s full market economy status” just a few months ago (November 2005), which is crucial for the CCP, which recently joined the World Trade Organization (WTO).
It is worth mentioning that the then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promoted Israel’s unilateral withdrawal of troops from the Gaza Strip from 2004 to 2005. However, this “land for peace” policy was opposed by the Likud Group. . On June 25, 2006, eight Hamas armed men attacked the Israeli army through an underground passage, resulting in the death and injury of many Israeli soldiers, and another Israeli soldier was kidnapped. That night, Israel launched a rescue operation.
After Hamas launched a large-scale raid on Israel this month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China has been emphasizing the “two-state solution” and calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying that an important condition for realizing this solution is the so-called “land for peace.” On October 13, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi publicly supported Hamas at a press conference following the China-EU High-Level Strategic Dialogue, saying that the root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is that the Palestinian aspiration for statehood has not been realized.
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