Speeches

Madam President, Commissioner, do you know who Karim is? An eighteen-month-old baby tortured two days ago in Gaza. What about brothers Ozman and Mohamed? They are two children who, together with their parents, were gunned down in a car in the West Bank. And the problem is that most Israeli society doesn't see them because for them they embody absolute evil: Amalek. They embody the future of a people they want to exterminate to keep their land. Minister Ben Gvir himself has acknowledged this. He said: "Children are a delayed threat and must be eliminated. Children are not innocent. When a society erases the innocence of a child, it erases itself, its humanity. And the question here is: what about us? Do we see those kids? Aren't we moved? You have children. Don't you think about your children? How many children must be killed in order for Europe to stop being an accomplice to this infanticide? One of the largest infanticides in history: more than 21,000 Palestinian girls and boys, more than 150 in Lebanon, 300 in Iran. How long, Commissioner?

Madam President, Commissioner, Trump does not need to kidnap anyone in Europe – as he has done in Venezuela – to govern because we are obedient subjects. Let's give up military bases - with the exception of Spain - so that it can commit its crimes, such as the bombing of a school with 180 girls killed in Iran. That NATO defends the interests of the United States has even been recognized this week by the Secretary General of NATO himself, the same week that von der Leyen has decreed the end of a world with rules. At last, the masks fall, that sincerity is appreciated, but the question then is... What is the use of being part of a club where the main partner threatens us, as we have seen in Greenland? He says he won't defend us if another country like Russia attacks us. And, in addition, it is a partner that in its national strategy identifies us as an adversary. We need to emancipate ourselves once and for all from the United States and from a president who is a narcissist and a danger to peace.

Mr President, Commissioner, while Israel and the United States murder civilians under the pretext of defending their rights, rights are being attacked here in Europe under the pretext of defending Israel's image or hiding its crimes. In Germany, there is increasing censorship and banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations and even persecution of Jewish critics, such as journalist Martin Gak. What an absurdity! The descendants of the Nazis persecuting the descendants of the victims of the Holocaust. In Italy, a law has been passed that associates anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel's crimes. In France, critical voices such as Rima Hassan, Member of the European Parliament, or Esfandiari, the linguist, are being pursued. And this Commission sanctions journalists like Doğru, and makes his life impossible, while unprotecting Francesca Albanese or the judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court. What is the conclusion of all that? That silences, criminalizes those who oppose the genocide to hide European complicity in it.

Mr President, Vice-President Kallas, you spoke about the Russian threat, but, on the United States, you simply said that we have a disagreement and that NATO must be strengthened. That the United States threatens us with an invasion is more than a disagreement, and with respect to NATO we have been arguing for years about whether it is useful to protect us from an external threat, and now we discover that the real threat comes from within, from its main partner. What good is Article 5 of the Treaty in these circumstances, if the United States has also said that it will not defend us if Russia attacks us? We are alone, and the sooner we become aware of it, the sooner we can react. Merkel already said it in Trump's first term: The United States is not a reliable partner. It is the time of independence; Until we have strategic autonomy, until we are militarily autonomous from the United States, we will continue at the mercy of their blackmail and humiliation.

Madam President, the fact that the United States bombs a country in Latin America is nothing new. It has been systematically violating international law for decades. The novelty is that now no excuses are invented, that now it does not seek alliances or resolutions. The masks are down. Venezuela's for oil, Greenland's for rare earths. Anyone who has resources is a potential victim of the new imperial order, an order that has replaced law with force and where the only limit - as Trump himself has said in a confession of a dictator - is his mind, his morality, the morality of a perverse, narcissistic being, who should be in jail for rape, for pedophilia, for coup, who says that the next elections of equal half-term should not be held. And what does the right wing of this Parliament, VOX and the People's Party do? Then applaud. And the Commission dares not condemn. And when it is not condemned, it is normalized. Mrs Kallas spoke today of the dismissal of Mr Maduro. It's not an impeachment, it's a kidnapping. The United States cannot remove a head of state, even if he is a tyrant. And to say that is to change the nature of the facts and is to alter international law. We are with international law. What about you guys?

Mr President, Mrs Kallas, Greenland and Canada is not an isolated provocation, it is not an eccentricity of a madman. The world has changed for a long time and we have been telling you. We saw it with this genocide that has been in Gaza for more than two years and we read it in the security strategy of the United States. There we are no longer an ally, we are the enemy to beat. Canada has said it will defend with Greenland weapons and what do we do?: a warm statement of support for Greenland. Measures must be put on the table to be credible, such as suspending the tariff trade agreement imposed on us by Trump; For example, ask ourselves if we should stop using the dollar as a reference currency or approach China. But, for that, it takes political will, stop being subjects and identify Trump's allies in Europe. Vox in Spain has not yet said anything because he prefers to defend the reactionary international than to defend his country. But the rest of us are risking our existence, the future of Europe: Either we unite or we sink separately.

Mr President, Commissioner, the democratic shields in Spain are falling apart. This Friday, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the death of dictator Franco, some neo-Franco judges that the Popular Party says it controls from behind have charged the attorney general of the State. Do you know why? For leaking the truth and dismantling a false news of the couple of the president of the Popular Party in Madrid, a confessed criminal. And that happens because in Spain, unlike Italy and Germany, there has not been a real democratic rupture. The dictator died in bed. And it's true: The Francoists accepted elections and formed a party, which is called the Popular Party, but in exchange for keeping intact the structures of the Francoist state and the king and leaving the crimes of the dictatorship unpunished. That's why the only one tried was Judge Garzon for trying to investigate them. And now they use these structures to persecute judges, prosecutors and legitimate governments, because they believe that power is theirs and you in Europe cannot look the other way, as you did during the Franco dictatorship. Europe has looked for many years at what was happening in Spain. They have to get their hands on what is happening in Spain, because it cannot be that the right hijacks the judicial dome.

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, since the so-called 'truce', more than 240 people in Gaza have been killed by Israel, 600 people have been injured and illegal settlements and attacks by armed settlers are growing in the West Bank. In one month there have been more than 2,300 attacks, terrorist attacks that go unpunished. Tonight a mosque has been set on fire. And Mrs von der Leyen in her speech today has not made a single mention of that, because she wants us to forget what is happening there, she wants us to forget European complicity, she wants us to forget that we continue to fail to comply with the resolutions of the international courts of justice and that we continue to maintain a totally illegal, criminal trade agreement, and that we continue to sell them weapons, and therefore we remain responsible for the policy of apartheid, of colonial extermination and ethnic cleansing practiced by Netanyahu. But we will continue to remind you that you are responsible, not only morally, but also politically and criminally for what happens there.

Mr President, Commissioner, the indiscriminate killings in both Sudan and Palestine are challenging us and have to do not only with Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but also with us. Where do you think the gold the UAE exports to Europe comes from, if it doesn't have mines? It comes from the looting of Sudan by the militias who commit these atrocities. And who is behind those militias? Who puts them together? Israel and the United Arab Emirates. In an obscene circle, Sudan's gold serves to grease the genocide in Palestine, but also that of Sudan. And we are no strangers to that neocolonial gear, because instead of sanctioning Israel and the United Arab Emirates, we have preferential agreements of all kinds with them and sell them the weapons that then end up in the hands of the same militia. If we do not want to continue with our hands stained with blood, we must break with that circle of blood and impunity.

Mr President, any attack on press freedom must always be condemned, and it is always – our solidarity with Sigfrido Ranucci – but we must be consistent. We have been talking about this case for an hour and have not spent a single minute – now or ever – on the biggest attack on press freedom in contemporary history: that which occurs in Gaza. One hundred and fifty journalists killed. That also has to do with us, because when a journalist is murdered, citizens' right to information, Europe's right to know the truth, is being denied. And it also has to do with us because what happens in Gaza has to do with the weapons and the money we give to our ally: Israel. Therefore, our solidarity with Siegfried Ranucci, but also with all the journalists who are attacked, and even killed, many of them thanks to our support.

Mr President, today Mrs Ursula von der Leyen spoke of European independence, while turning Europe into a colony of Trump's new imperial order, subordinated to the military, technological and energy interests of the United States. And he did so by quoting Simone Veil, the symbol of anti-fascism and the Europe of "never again"; That symbol and commitment of non-repetition that is buried in the ruins of the Gaza ghetto, where we have killed between 10% and 30%. And I say "we have", because it has been with our weapons, with our money. It's okay to remember Simone Veil; But it is also good to remember another Frenchwoman, Simone Weil, who said that Europe would not be independent until its colonial gaze was removed and it did not respect the peoples. And we're not doing that. We therefore need more moral coherence.

Mr President, Commissioner, today we cannot talk about the European police model without talking about what is happening on our streets. And let me remind you of an ephemeris: On a day like today, in 1971, in Paris, hundreds of demonstrators against colonialism in Algeria were arrested, killed, tortured. And this has not been recognized by France until last year. That has to do with our vision of security, a vision marked by our colonial mentality. Now it is not so much Algeria, but it is Palestine, and we see it in Britain's Anti-Terrorism Act, which associates solidarity with Palestine with terrorism. And we see it in the Madrid of Ayuso, of the Popular Party, which pursues Palestinian symbols because it believes that it is a security problem. And we see it also in Berlin, in Budapest, when demonstrations are banned or dissolved for security reasons. And we saw it last week when a group of women were fined for carrying a Palestinian flag. Today we cannot talk about security without talking about that colonial mentality that is still present in our European police model.

Mr President, Commissioner, let us tell the truth: Trump's plan is the victory of the new imperial order built on the ashes of the Palestinian holocaust, and it will not even be fulfilled in what is positive, as we have already warned. Israel signed a ceasefire and, the next day, was bombing Gaza – and there are already 100 bombings, more than 100 dead; Israel signed on to allow humanitarian aid and, by the third day, was already preventing it; Israel signed off on withdrawing from Gaza and, on the fourth day, one of its ministers was already saying he would put illegal settlements there. Does anyone really believe that Israel is going to withdraw from Gaza? Does anyone really believe that Israel is going to stop? Will it stop with its program of ethnic cleansing, racial supremacism? To believe that is not to know the project of Zionism. Israel will not stop until the United States and Europe stop supporting it. Israel will not stop until it is defeated politically and militarily, as was the case with Hitler's Germany.

Mr President, Commissioner, the European Union – you – have just signed an agreement with Morocco that includes natural resources from Western Sahara. That is precisely what is prohibited not only by the UN, but by the Court of Justice of the European Union. How can we disobey our own courts? That Court had said that Western Sahara did not belong to Morocco, and the resolutions must be respected. The same goes for Palestine: We ignore what the courts say in the conflict and not only do we not sanction and isolate the occupying force, but we also maintain military and trade agreements. Partial suspension should be debated, and not even that. With what legitimacy are we then going to ask Trump not to invade Greenland or Putin not to invade Ukraine if we are defending the invasion of other countries? What is worth to Ukraine must be worth to the Sahara and to Palestine; The opposite is hypocrisy, hypocrisy that destroys the soul and legitimacy of Europe.

Madam President, it's been four hours. Four hours talking about how to protect the European territory, about possible threats from Russia. But not a single minute on the real attacks that are taking place on European territory, against European citizens. Just this morning, a European Freedom Flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid was attacked. And that, in international law, is European territory. With Russia, the armored skies. With Israel, we close our eyes and keep sending weapons. Weapons they use against our citizens. This is a double standard. And here, not a word of condemnation. You can't even discuss it. If we talk about the threats that European citizens face on European territory, let us talk about all the threats. Because this threat is real. It has happened this morning, and the crew members have been kidnapped and will surely be tortured, as happened last week. Please, let's talk about that too.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen of the People's Party, no lesson in anti-Semitism or Judeophobia, because the Palestinians are also Semites. We are the political children of those with the Jews who fight against Nazism and fascism. You are the political children of those who persecuted you and wanted you out. That is why they allied themselves with the Zionists, because they also had the same goal. And of course, they don't seem to hate Jews anymore. Orbán, for example. But the problem is not that they have stopped hating the Jews, it is that they hate the Muslims more and that is why they have allied themselves with Israel. Because as the German Chancellor said: Israel does the dirty work of the West. And you, when you confuse what Israel does with Judeophobia, are doing the Jews a disservice. Because there are many Jews who are critical of what Israel does. Primo Levi himself, Jean Améry, victims of the Holocaust, Jews who criticized Israel for what it did to Palestine. According to you, they would hate the Jews, they would hate themselves. Stop mixing the concepts, because they are promoting Judeophobia and offending the real victims of it.

Madam President, Commissioner, this is not a peace plan, this is a business plan of Trump, his son-in-law, his friends... to turn Gaza after a genocide into what appeared in your macabre video: in a theme park, in a luxury resort. Behind all extermination, there is always a business plan; Hamas is an excuse. And for this plan to be viable, cheap labour – slave labour, if possible – is needed. And hence the ultimatum to the survivors of the Gaza ghetto: Or you will obey or be wiped off the map. That's the same language of colonial empires or totalitarian regimes like Nazism. But we, ladies and gentlemen of the Socialist Party, have to defend the law, the courts of justice, the United Nations. No plan is legitimate if it arises from the impunity of occupation and extermination. No justice is legitimate without rights, justice and reparation, and that starts with executing the international arrest warrant against Netanyahu. The other thing? Go back to our neocolonial past and give us the spoils, which is what you propose. As, of course, we have laid half the bombs, we have participated in this genocide ... because now they claim their share. This is an embarrassment.

Madam President, I'm going to read you something: I asked them for my heart medication. They looked at me and answered: You're not a person, you're an animal. And animals don't need medicine. This is the testimony of one of the detainees following the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. Like this there are dozens and dozens of Europeans, who were on European ships, and who were kidnapped and then beaten, tortured and humiliated in Israeli prisons for doing what Europe and its governments should have done: a humanitarian corridor to save lives. And what has Ursula von der Leyen done in the face of these crimes? Protecting European citizens, the victims? No. As always, stand by the executioners, the torturers, Israel. What a shame! But know that we will not resign ourselves. That behind each flotilla comes another flotilla. Right now there's one 230 miles from Gaza. Because what we are playing there is not only the future of an entire people. It is the future of humanity.

Mr. President, Israel has released a video of its naval attacks threatening the Global Sumud Flotilla and saying it will treat its crew as terrorists. There are Europeans on those ships. It is sailed with flags of European countries. To attack them is to attack Europe and that is why the question is clear: What will this Parliament do? What about Ursula von der Leyen? Will governments protect citizens or will they continue to maintain their complicit silence? If it had been Putin, here today there would have already been a condemnation and perhaps warships to protect the citizens. But that's not going to happen. And you know why? Because this genocide is Europe's responsibility. Half of the bombs that fall in Gaza are European. And the Palestinians, because they are not white, don't give a damn. And those who help them too, because they remind them of what they should do and don't do: try to save lives and stop being accomplices. But I give you some advice: do not relax, because at any time we organize a world 15M.

Madam President, in a few years the new generations are going to ask us what we did while a live genocide was taking place in Gaza. I do know what I did. And you, Commissioner, Mrs Kallas, Mrs von der Leyen? You put yourself in the profile, next to the executioners, and the resolutions of the courts of international justice bounce you in the conscience like peas against a steel helmet, leaving no trace. It is true that the more than 60 000 killed in Gaza – and those to come – cannot be raised to point fingers at them; But I can, you and the governments that keep giving money and weapons to grease Israel's extermination machine. Today in Spain a complaint has been admitted against Netanyahu for the violent assault on the Freedom Flotilla. There are many of us – and I am proud to be a lawyer – who will not stop until those responsible have to answer to justice and to history. And you're on that list.