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"Mr President, many people have called for action to be taken regarding Israel and for a ceasefire, and we would like to add our voices to theirs. Much fewer were the voices which did not go along with the crowd and also spoke of the tragedy of the victims of the blind, brutal terrorism striking innocent civilians, of the ‘loss of humanity’, to quote one of the Members.
There is another requirement, in addition to these. Europe cannot continue to stand by and do nothing when weapons threaten to destroy the places which symbolise our civilisation, the Christian civilisation. Why has Europe itself never decided to propose, as has been advocated by the highest spiritual authorities for years, the internationalisation of the holy places?
I would ask the President to inform both the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority of the pain currently felt by millions of European citizens of the Christian religion at the sight of the holy places where Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem desecrated by bombs, fighting and occupation by armed soldiers, transformed into bivouacs for soldiers and becoming targets for both sides."@en1
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