| Alyn Smith |
| Email |
| [email protected] |
| Website |
| http://alynsmith.eu |
| Political Party |
| Scottish National Party |
| Region |
| Scotland |
| Your ranking on your Party’s list |
| 2 |
| 1. Will you support measures to exclude Israeli illegal settlements from the EU relations with Israel? |
| Yes |
| 2.And will you support a campaign to exclude goods entering the EU from Israel’s settlements beyond the Green Line? |
| Yes |
| 3. Will you ensure that the EU fully applies the conditionality clause guaranteeing respect for human rights in all its future and current agreements between the EU and Israel? |
| Yes |
| 4. Will you oppose Israel’s violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and will you support Palestinians’ right to self-determination? |
| Yes |
| Any other comments? |
| The EU should recognise that the Israeli government is not a partner in peace, it is the primary opponent of it. I have visited Gaza and the West Bank during my time as MEP and have seen for myself the daily humiliations inflicted upon the Palestinian people, making the economy of Palestine a basket case, brutalising the population and in itself encouraging violence, which is then used to justify further aggression. I favour a two state solution but there has to be two viable states in the first place and the Israeli government is being permitted to undermine at every turn any chance the Palestinians have of establishing any viable economy. |