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Calling Gaza a gaping wound on humanity, Spain calls for arms embargo on Israel. [1]
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Date: 2025-05-26
In his article on May 26, Gaza “a Gaping Wound on Humanity”: Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to call for Arms Embargo on Israel, Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan writes:
delegations from 20 countries met Sunday in Madrid in a push to pressure Israel to halt its total war on Gaza and to establish a Palestinian state. Convened by Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, the conference sought to move to concrete actions.
Cole says “Israel began letting a small amount of aid in last week,” but it has been described by UN officials as “a drop in the ocean compared to the urgent needs of 2.2 million Palestinians.”
Albares, Madrid’s foreign minister, said at the Sunday conference:
The sole interest that all of us gathered here today have is to stop this unjust, cruel, and inhumane Israeli war in Gaza, break the blockade of humanitarian aid, and move definitively toward a two-state solution.
Albares asked, “What’s the alternative? Kill all the Palestinians? Send them, I don’t know where -— to the moon?” He continued:
Gaza is a gaping wound in humanity… There are no words to describe what is happening in Gaza—but just because there are no words doesn’t mean we will remain silent.
He observed: “exactly the same right to peace and security that the Israeli people possess is also possessed by the Palestinian people.”
the Palestinian people cannot be condemned eternally to the estate of a people of refugees.
Albares called for three tangible steps: 1) the suspension of the EU-Israel trade agreement 2) an arms embargo on Israel 3) a review of the list of individual sanctions maintained by each country and the EU.
Albares noted that Spain had for some time put sanctions on individual Israelis who were “making the two-state solution impossible” and urged other countries to do the same.
Albares also said that Spain would introduce a Security Council resolution demanding the immediate entry of massive civilian aid for Gaza without hindrance, and he urged the breaking of the “vicious circle” of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Professor Cole notes that the Madrid Plus group of nations met once before with 10 attendees, including Ireland, Spain and Norway, along with Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye. Cole observes:
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