Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-22-Speech-3-237"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Peace and dignity in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031022.9.3-237"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-10-22-Speech-3-2382
lpv:speaker	lp:Luisa Morgantini2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito della rifondazione comunista (1999-07-20--2004-04-28)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Menéndez del Valle very much as well as all of the members of the committee, who worked together to draft this document, which is, indeed, the product of a European culture, but of a European culture that is, perhaps, the and other things, certainly not the one referred to earlier. I have the impression that the sleep of reason, as Francisco de Goya said, produces monsters, and, sometimes, I also feel that these monsters, which are, in actual fact, the result of the dehumanisation of mankind, are among us. I sense in this House the inability to understand the suffering of others, the inability to understand that time is running out and that, whilst we have been discussing what solutions to adopt for months, for years, people are, in fact, still dying in Palestine and Israel. The inhumanity that I sense here is one that does not understand the daily suffering of living under military occupation, the injustice that children suffer. Of course, there is talk of the pain and suffering of Israeli children that are killed by human bombs but, for Heaven’s sake, we must stop this and start seeing things as they are. There are United Nations resolutions that are not enforced. Let us begin to think about these things and experience them, see the people, go to the places and understand. This is why I said that the sleep of reason produces monsters. I fully agree with the report, which is very important and quite clearly stresses its refusal of violence, but stresses just as clearly the right to live in peace, to build. Time is short and I believe that two initiatives are extremely important. Today, we have had Naomi Kazan and Jamal Zakut here; we are going to have Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo here. These are the courageous ones, the people that have the courage to say: let us build, let us work, let us plan; just as all those Israeli voices are courageous – and they are those that we should listen to – like the pilots that refuse to go and bomb. This is something of great importance. There is an extremely serious problem: the wall. Mr Poettering said this at the last Parliamentary sitting too: the wall is a disgrace. The wall is destructive, but, above all, it is an annexation of territory. One cannot annex territory and colonise and then want peace. There can only be peace where there is mutual respect. We are giving a strong signal with this report and I believe that we must continue in this direction."@en1

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