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"Mr President, first of all, I welcome the rapporteur’s laudable efforts in such a difficult area. It is true that we need peace right away – it is urgent – it is true that we need to show the prospect, as has been said, and that we need to re-humanise this debate and avoid turning the parties into monsters. That was said with a great deal of humanity just now.
I would, however, like to make a few brief comments on this report, but first to add my voice to the protests that have been raised against the Malaysian Prime Minister’s racist remarks. I want our Assembly to note that and take strong initiatives in this regard.
I would also like to express my strongest indignation at what Mr Gahrton said just now in justification of terrorist violence and to say that while the occupation must be condemned – it is questionable and I have many criticisms of Israeli policy in that respect – it does not justify terrorism and never will. Terrorism is a crime against humanity, it is absolutely evil, without equivalent, and must be condemned. I really would like to know what the connection is between young people who blow themselves up in discos or people who are murdered in restaurants and the occupation. I think the comparison is absolutely outrageous. Personally, it makes me want to throw up.
Coming back to the three things I want to say about this report, first of all, as I said, terrorism really cannot be put on the same plane as the criticisms that might legitimately be made of Israeli policy. They are two different things, different in the moral hierarchy and in the hierarchy of evil. Then I would like to mention sanctions, in particular the breaking off of the association agreement. Breaking off that agreement is a sanction against a people, and since our Assembly called for the embargo against Iraq to be lifted on the grounds that a people should not be punished for the acts of its leaders, I do not think we should punish the people of Israel, especially when we have just voted for an association agreement with Lebanon, which can tell us a lot about occupation, being a country that is occupied, annexed by Syria, whether we condemn it or not.
Finally, my third comment is about the international mandate, which takes us back 50 years. I would like to point out, however, that what was passionately refused yesterday is being demanded passionately today: the 1967 borders, the division of Palestine into two or the Clinton criteria. That is what is being called for today after overturning the table."@en1
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