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On April 29, 1984 Tudela was the scene of the signing of the twinning between the City Council of the Ribera City and the Israeli town of Tiberíades. In this way, Tudela narrowed ties with this city where one of his most illustrious neighbors, the Jew Benjamín de Tudeladuring the famous trip he made in the twelfth century.

This Monday, 41 years later, this twinning between Tudela and Tiberíades reaffirmed thanks to the UPN government team. The regionalist voted against the motion presented to the plenary by with you in which, endorsing the claim of the collective Yala Navarre with Palestine -Who members concentrated at the gates of the Town Hall-, the City Council was asked to “indefinitely suspend this twinning while persisting by the State of Israel the systematic and continuous violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people.”

The posture of the groups

UPN spokeswoman, Irune Garcíadefended the maintenance of twinning with Tiberíades pointing out that “at an international moment as complex as the current one, from this City Council we consider that cutting ties should not be the answer.” “On the contrary, we believe that these links should serve to strengthen the culture of peace, dialogue between peoples, and cooperation from local, while being sensitive to human suffering wherever it occurs,” Garcia said.

Thus, the regionalist mayor pointed out that Tudela “must continue to bet on preserving and transmitting the memory, the Sephardic legacy, and for sharing the wealth of her inheritance with those cities that, as Tiberíades, are part of the emotional, historical and cultural map of our ancestors.”

To these statements he replied The spokesman for you, Alberto Lajusticia, Who pointed out that “precisely because it is at a very serious international moment, maintaining those ties as if nothing happened is a form of complicity.” In addition, he clarified that the motion did not ask to eliminate twinning, but requested his suspension “while persisting the current situation.”

For its part, PSN spokeswoman Olga Chueca, He pointed out that “before this genocide there is no pronouncement by the Tudela City Council condemning the actions of the Israel government in Gaza.” “The PSN interprets this institutional silence as an accomplice passivity or political insensitivity,” said Chueca, who stressed that, during these four decades of twinning with Tiberíades, “the actions between both cities have been scarce.”

With you and PSN voted in favor of the motion, while The mayor of the PP, Irene Royo, He abstained. The popular pointed out that “a limit must be put to the bleeding in Gaza and you cannot look the other way”, but regarding twinning with Tiberíades, Royo said that “we believe that there are other ways to press Israel to put an end to this situation.”