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Conference on Palestine
By Joseph Benmatías

what about the days that Intercultura will devote about Palestine, I think extremely necessary to clarify some things to consider. So, without further delay, let it. 1) The military occupation is no doubt that there is a military occupation on the Palestinian territories. Sometimes it can be distressing. But is the reason for this occupation. The answer is not complex: because there is occupation there is Palestinian terrorism. The occupation is the result of Palestinian violence, not its cause. Resolution 242 of 1967 United Nations calls on Israel to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank exclusively under a peace treaty which guarantees the security of the Jewish state and its "right to live in peace under secure borders." Clearly Such conditions have not been given. 2) The "apartheid wall": The Israeli security barrier is a defensive measure is not aimed at isolating the Palestinian population, but prevent and deter terrorist attacks inside Israel. The Israeli government has said many times that the security fence is reversible when you stop Palestinian terrorism, there is no need to maintain the fence. On the other hand, the use of the term "wall" is different from reality: only 6 percent can be defined strictly speaking as such (a concrete wall), while 94 percent is constituted by a system of fences and barbed wire . The effectiveness of the fence is provable: statistics indicate that it has significantly reduced the number of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. 3) "Palestinian resistance" in Spain As someone who loath us to ETA Txeroki qualify as a "resistant" should be equally nauseating continuous appeals to the "Palestinian resistance." If we use terrorism as premeditated, deliberate and systematic violence against civilian targets, no one in their right mind would argue that whoever blows himself up on a bus or cafeteria full of civilians is a "tough" or "militant." On the contrary, the Palestinian terrorist criminals are raised in the wake of the most intransigent fanaticism whose objective is to annihilate the Jewish state. Under this premise, the Israeli state has a moral duty to employ all available means at its disposal to protect its citizens. 4) The situation in Gaza: military and civilian withdrawal from Gaza by Israel in 2004 gave the Palestinians an opportunity for political and administrative self-sufficiency of its territory. Was a step of undeniable importance for peace. Not exploit the opportunity, most of the Gaza Palestinians have supported the coup that the terrorist group Hamas (which clearly advocates in its charter the destruction of Israel) gave in June 2007. Since then, nearly 3,000 rockets and mortars have fallen from Gaza in Israeli cities like Sderot and Ashkelon in schools, malls and homes, causing civilian casualties and untold property damage. It was hoped that the Intercultural Association, given its blatant political and ideological bias, invited to lecture on the Arab-Israeli someone so biased in your articles and stories as a journalist for El Pais Juan Miguel Muñoz. No wonder, on the other hand, given that this newspaper is not characterized precisely by its neutrality and fairness in accordance with what issues.