{"id":335439,"date":"2023-12-05T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T10:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/?p=335439"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:40:29","slug":"statement-solidarity-above-all-only-an-international-peace-process-can-stop-the-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/statement-solidarity-above-all-only-an-international-peace-process-can-stop-the-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity above all:\u00a0only an international peace process can stop the violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the European Solidarity Economy Network, we express our horror and\u00a0deep\u00a0concern at the massacres of civilians<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>in the Gaza Strip and\u00a0West Bank territories\u00a0by the Israeli armed forces,\u00a0while denouncing the acts of barbarism claimed by Hamas that took place on October 7 in the Eshkol-Israel region.\u00a0RIPESS Europe joins the voices of social movements and civil society <\/em>in calling for an end to the massacre in Gaza<\/em>\u00a0and for European institutions and international community to intervene\u00a0with a peace plan for the region.<\/em><\/p>\n

Violence as a response to violence is\u00a0is forcing the Palestinian and Israeli peoples into a dead end.\u00a0War is a part of a logic that values aggression, occupation, and domination.\u00a0As\u00a0Solidarity Economy actors, alongside with many civil society movements,\u00a0\u00a0we\u00a0promote\u00a0a\u00a0culture of dialogue, an alternative approach for conflict resolution. We stand for a geopolitics of solidarity, committed to human rights rather than militarism and violence.\u00a0Therefore, we join\u00a0RIPESS Intercontinental<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in condemning\u00a0\u201call acts of war and the occupation of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza, as stipulated in the UN resolutions declaring them illegal. We consider that the Palestinian people have the right to exist and to remain on their ancestral land. The international community must guarantee the right of peoples to self-determination\u201d.\u00a0We as such also support and join the thousands of demonstrations against the war that are taking place around the world.<\/p>\n

As a European network, we ask that Europe stop supporting Israel\u2019s illegal occupation, stop sending arms to this region and stop tolerating the systemic violation of international law. We demand that the European commission and institutions immediately intervene with the international community to stop this ongoing massacre by calling for a total ceasefire and other measures to put an an end to the violence, illegal occupation and apartheid in Gaza.\u00a0 As a movement based on nonviolence and cooperation, we also demand that our institutions resolutely and definitively promote a process of peace and dialogue that defends human rights and the self-determination of peoples, through all the means of transnational mutual cooperation and direct involvement of the populations.<\/p>\n

We firmly believe in\u00a0replacing a war industry with an economy that benefits living beings and re-establish forms of economic democracy, of which the solidarity economy\u00a0for the\u00a0transition to a world of justice, freedom and peace\u00a0is a good example.\u00a0We also encourage to join nonviolent actions such as the\u00a0campaign\u00a0to\u00a0boycott and divest from\u00a0Israeli apartheid products [BDS movemen<\/span>t<\/u><\/a>] through our power as consumers, we can avoid\u00a0buying products or brands that support\u00a0Israeli illegal settlements and occupation,\u00a0\u00a0while at the same time we can\u00a0promote\u00a0and support\u00a0those that are the fruit of fair trade and cooperation [ICA statemen<\/span>t<\/u><\/a>],\u00a0\u00a0empowering the efforts of both Palestinian and Israeli anti-apartheid\u00a0and peace movements.<\/p>\n

RIPESS Europe promotes an economy of transition towards a world of justice, freedom and peace. It is this hope that we want to nurture among all human beings whose lives are devastated by the imbecilic power games that plague and bruise bodies and minds instead of encouraging human beings to work together to maintain the fragile habitat that is the planet. All our friendly strength goes to support those who resist barbarism.\u00a0And immense compassion for all those who lost\u00a0 their loved ones in this murderous madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On behalf of the European Solidarity Economy Network, we express our horror and\u00a0deep\u00a0concern at the massacres of civilians\u00a0in the Gaza Strip and\u00a0West Bank territories\u00a0by the Israeli armed forces,\u00a0while denouncing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}