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"Mr President, High Representative, today’s debate seems to me to be a proper debate. I appreciate the Presidency’s flexibility as regards time: if the President wants to make this a genuine political debating chamber once again, it may be no bad thing that he is showing some flexibility towards us. I would like to say that we are caught up in an appalling, absurd situation: when the Israelis elected Ariel Sharon to power they thought he would bring them more security, but they are now in a terrible situation. When President Bush was giving his assessment of the tragic situation after the attacks on the Twin Towers, he gave the impression of intending to eradicate the sources of hatred and to genuinely do something about this tragic affair. However, if the United States now backs Ariel Sharon, there is a danger that it will no longer be able to play the mediating role it had even under Bill Clinton. At present, it would appear that Yasser Arafat is not in control of the situation, for the terrorism of
is still gathering momentum, but if Mr Arafat were to lose all support, the consequences for Palestine would not bear thinking about.
Therefore, it is up to us, to Europe to do something. I do not want to shock anybody, but I believe that the only way to give Israel security – as many Members have said – is to establish a Palestinian State. Therefore, we must start to declare right now that we are prepared to recognise such a State and also that we need to have a special relationship with both the Israeli State and the Palestinian State. I will not go so far as to mention accession to the Union, as Mr Dupuis did, for fear of causing offence, but if Europe wants to genuinely lay the history of the twentieth century to rest, it cannot confine itself to enlargement and refuse to assume full responsibility for the consequences of European history."@en1
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