The international community regrettably does not give signals that it is capable of intervening efficiently to protect the life of citizens amidst the war in the Middle East. However, as Israel has the right to existence and defense, it is obliged, for the safety of the own citizens, to take measures, the permanent expert of IPN’s project Igor Boțan stated in a public debate staged by IPN News Agency.
According to Igor Boțan, the about 70-year-history shows that Israel cannot have illusions. The terrorist group Hamas must be liquidated and Israel proposed that the civilians should leave a part of the Gaza Strip and this proposal is reasonable. “The international community should have reacted appropriately and should have contributed to creating humanitarian corridors for the civilians to leave the Gaza Strip, where there is underground infrastructure where the terrorists are hiding and storing weapons, but didn’t do it.
Igor Boțan also said that the international community is also divided and this is seen in what is going on in the UN, where the next day after the terrorist attack was staged on Israel, the Security Council was convened, but this could not adopt a decision to condemn terrorism, which is astounding. “As to the EU, given that a series of European states have large communities of Islamic religion, most probably we can presume that the attentive attitude of these European states comes from the fear not to trigger hard to control actions on the territory of these states. I consider the states of the world should condemn terrorism,” he stated.
Igor Boțan noted that in general, society in the Republic of Moldova sympathizes with Israel as a victim of these terrorist acts and there are historical reasons for behaving like this. Many of the Moldovan citizens immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. Approximately 20,000 Moldovans were working in Israel. “In Moldova, there are yet manifestations of anti-Semitism and this is regrettable, but the general attitude of the authorities was reflected in the Parliament Declaration on the condemnation of terrorism, which matters a lot,” noted the expert.
The public debate entitled “Humankind between Terrorism, Compassion and Interests” was the 293rd installment of IPN’s project “Developing Political Culture through Public Debates” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
