Israel
Together with six other colleagues from Greens/EFA I visited East Jerusalem and the West Bank - on a mission to see the situation on the ground, listen to people directly affected, and assess developments that are often discussed in Europe without enough attention to daily reality.
We cannot fully rely on Trump to achieve a sustainable peace between Israel and Palestine. In the European Parliament, we debated what role Europe should play.
Families in Israel are mourning the victims of October 7, while hostages are still living through hell in captivity. Families in Gaza have no time to mourn, as new bombs keep falling, and settlers terrorize people in the West Bank. All our energy must be focused on ending this violence.
The Israeli government keeps escalating its actions in Gaza. The EU must respond and draw consequences. In Parliament, with our first resolution in a long time, we made it clear: we support Ursula von der Leyen’s initiatives from the State of the Union — but we need to go further.
People in Iran, Israel, and Palestine are not collateral damage of geopolitics – they are the path to peace. Our foreign policy must focus on them.
The cycle of violence in the Middle East is escalating. What’s happening, what role Europe must play now, and what lies ahead.
Israel hat das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung und die Befreiung der Geiseln – gleichzeitig haben die Zivilist*innen in Gaza das Recht auf Schutz und humanitäre Hilfe. Wie kann beides erreicht werden?