Cuba calls for peace in the Middle East
The USA ought to support the two-state solution
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs today issued a statement entitled “A just and lasting peace in the Middle East is an urgent need.” It declared:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba reiterates its deep concern about the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine, which is a consequence of decades of Israeli practices of illegal occupation and colonization. . . .
The Ministry rejects, and has always rejected, the death of civilians and innocent persons of all the parties involved in this conflict, regardless of their ethnic origin, nationality or religious creed; and strongly condemns the killing of civilians, particularly women, children and humanitarian workers from the United Nations system; as well as the indiscriminate bombings against the population in Gaza and the destruction of houses, hospitals and civil infrastructure and the cutting off of water, power and fuel supplies to the population of G…