FIR against violance in Jerusalem

8. Dezember 2014

The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists, the umbrella organization of former guerrilla fighter against fascism, members of the anti-Hitler coalition, victims of the Nazi regime and anti-fascists of today’s generations received with great sadness the news of the attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem.
We condemn this act of violence which cann’t legitimized by any political desperation or other reasons. This violence is a major obstacle to progress on the path to a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East.
Such attacks on churches and believers lead to escalation and provide those who defeat on both sides of the conflict an agreement, the keywords to answer violence with violence.
We call for an immediate end to the violence in the Middle East. We call on the political leaders in the Palestinian territories to do everything in their power to prevent such forms of individual terror for the residents of Israel can live without fear.
We call on the political leaders in Israel, do not answer this crime through their own criminal actions against the Palestinian civilian population.

The Middle East peace can only be made on the basis of United Nations resolutions – a military solution is impossible. We assure our Israeli member federation our sympathy and full solidarity.