The designated ambassador to Austria, David Roet, has spoken out against a ban on Palestinian demonstrations. “I think they should take to the streets. They should shout: ‘Free Gaza from Hamas. “Free the Gaza Strip from terrorism,” he said in an interview with APA. Roet is “very impressed” by the Austrian response after the major attack by the terrorist organization Hamas on Israel.
After last Saturday’s brutal attack, Austria became “the first country to raise the Israeli flag in addition to the Austrian flag.” Roet emphasizes that he was impressed by the cross-party support for Israel from the Federal President, Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Mayor of Vienna and all party leaders he met.
No demonstrations for “murder, rape, beheading”
Austria was also one of the first states to suspend financing for development cooperation with the Palestinians. Roet is very pleased with the ‘stop sponsoring Hamas’. Hamas abused financial support from Israel and European aid organizations. “They took the money and used it to kill Israelis.”
Roet hopes that the international community will no longer speak from both sides. “The Palestinian ambassador must be on the same side as me,” the diplomat emphasizes – and therefore not on the side of those who demonstrate for torture and “for murder, for the rape of Israeli women, for the beheading of Israeli soldiers, for decapitating babies and for taking small children from their mothers and then holding them hostage.”
‘Should the Palestinians be freed from Hamas’
There are already about 1,300 dead in his country, thousands of wounded and many soldiers and children among the victims. “There is no one in Israel who does not know someone who has not been killed, injured, kidnapped or missing.” But Hamas also doesn’t care about the Palestinian people, says Roet. This is evident, for example, from Hamas’s call not to respond to the Israeli army’s request to evacuate Gaza City, but to die in their homes.
Israel tries with all its might to prevent civilians from being injured. “We are not against Palestinian civilians. We must free the Palestinians from Hamas.”
IGGÖ rejects calls for violence at demonstrations
Meanwhile, ahead of a pro-Palestinian meeting in Vienna-Favoriten, the president of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGÖ), Ümit Vural, also appealed to participants to “express their concerns in a peaceful and respectful manner and promote human dignity”. .”. The IGGÖ “resolutely” rejects any form of calls for violence during demonstrations.
Many are “deeply affected by the ongoing developments in the conflict in the Middle East,” Vural said: “The conflict is having tragic consequences for the civilian population and the humanitarian situation in the region.” However, the IGGÖ is “strongly committed to the basic principles of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, which are of central importance in a democratic society,” Vural emphasized: “Humanity, hatred and violence contradict religious values and ethical principles of the IGGÖ.”
Source: Krone
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