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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate you on your presidency of the European Parliament. You are certainly the right person in the right place. The subject under discussion is the situation in the Middle East, as it was a few months ago, and as it was a year ago and even 15 years ago, as Commissioner Patten pointed out earlier. Incidentally, Mr Patten has been awarded an honorary doctorate by a Polish university. Maybe the time has finally come to stop using polite diplomatic language and start using the language of hard facts. It is simply not the case that both parties to the conflict in the Middle East are equally guilty and that the truth lies somewhere in between. We are currently facing a new situation. Since early this year, Israeli towns have been struck by nearly 150 rockets manufactured locally by Hamas. Rockets of this kind have been causing material damage and spreading panic for several years, but now they are also killing people and even children. This proves that the conflict has escalated. It also proves that responsibility for the escalation must now be borne by the Palestinian side. How are we to react to this? Are we to remain passive, or can we and do we maybe even want to play at being an arbitrator and move the Israeli Government and Arafat around like figures on a chessboard? Neither of these approaches would be right. We are constantly discussing great plans and road maps. It might be more appropriate first to have a long hard look at where EU money is going. It is important to establish whether sometimes, contrary to our intentions, this money actually goes directly to those who bring death to the Middle East. This matter was already discussed by the previous European Parliament.
In conclusion, let us be generous, but let us examine what our money is being spent on."@en1
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