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"Mr President, the European reaction, which has been somewhat more coherent than usual, has come at the right time.
It has now become quite clear that Mr Sharon’s policy is leading nowhere. When there are no political prospects on the horizon, the Old Testament prescription of ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ leads directly to horror and to chaos. Bloodshed leads to further bloodshed. This is a return to the Middle Ages, even to prehistoric times.
It is therefore high time that the Council of the European Union, the Commission and all our governments spoke up, loudly and clearly, whatever the President of the United States might think. It is Mr Sharon, and not Mr Arafat, who has the power to end the conflict. How can he do this? Simply by complying with international law, by ending the repressive occupation of Palestine and by withdrawing behind Israel’s internationally recognised borders.
The best way to protect both Israeli and Palestinian citizens is to re-establish a proper border between the two peoples. The way out of the deadlock of hatred does not lie in the humiliation and the destabilisation of Mr Arafat. It lies in land distribution and in acknowledging Palestinian nationhood, not in the medium term, but immediately.
Mr Solana, Mr Patten, you must state this quite clearly. This is the urgent message that all of Europe’s representatives should be conveying."@en1
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