Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-194"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Joint initiative for peace, stability and democracy throughout the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040330.5.2-194"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-30-Speech-2-1952
lpv:speaker	lp:Mary Elizabeth Banotti2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I recently attended a conference of Arab women in Beirut. The women were from 22 different Arab countries. What struck me was that they all speak a common language, which gave them a unity that perhaps we still aspire to here in Europe. Regardless of what they spoke about at that conference – and they were all highly educated, sophisticated women – the issue of Palestine was mentioned by every single person. Clearly, this issue is a hugely unifying factor throughout all the Arab countries. We in Ireland have learned – tragically and dreadfully over a thirty-year period – what it is to live with terrorism. We have also seen some of the bitterest enemies in the world take a leap of faith that led to peace in Northern Ireland – to the great relief of all of us. Commissioner Patten clearly had a part in that as well. I do not want to repeat many of the things colleagues have said here this afternoon, but we have to recognise that at the heart of the tragedy is another generation of little people living in those squalid camps in Palestine who are growing up, and the first game they play is throwing stones at soldiers – just as they did in Northern Ireland. There is also another generation of children on the other side of the border who are too terrified to go to school in case the bus they are riding in is blown up. These are the children who 20 years from now will be the leaders, or perhaps the victims, or the suicide bombers. We all condemn unreservedly the dreadful events in both Palestine and Israel. But there has to be that leap of faith, that moment in which, as a friend of mine said, we have to smile weakly and have a strong stomach and forget about the awful things we have done to each other and start to try and address the dreadful issues in the Middle East which are central to practically every single major political issue in the world today."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Banotti (PPE-DE )."1

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