Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-13-Speech-3-072"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-10-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041013.4.3-072"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-10-13-Speech-3-0732
lpv:speaker	lp:Luisa Morgantini2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partito della Rifondazione Comunista - Sinistra Europea (2004-07-20--2007-01-22)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2007-01-30)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-07-28--2007-01-15)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 chair; DEVE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, 3 500 Palestinians dead, and over 1 000 Israelis: my dear Mr Solana, you speak of an ‘appeal’ and talk of hoping that the Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza. Frankly, I have been listening for six years now in this Parliament to wise words, which ascribe responsibility to one side or the other for the situation, but today Palestinians continue to die, killed by an occupying army. Occupying. In fact, the truth is simple: there is no asymmetry, there is symmetry. What we see before us is an occupied country and international law being totally rejected. You should believe Sharon when he tells Winston Churchill’s descendant that he will squeeze the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank like a pastrami sandwich. Dove Weisglass is not lying when he clearly asserts that withdrawing from Gaza simply means mothballing the peace process. These are not lies; this is the truth, and this is the political line that Sharon is taking. Certainly, there can be no justification for the criminal acts that the Palestinian terrorists may carry out against Israeli citizens. But can we really only make appeals? Does Europe really not have the authority to say to Israel ‘It is time to end the Israeli military occupation’? This is not simplistic or ingenuous: this is the truth. I am tired of our hypocrisies, tired of this way of going on, where every day houses are being destroyed and children are being killed. Ayman, 13 years old, who was going to school with his schoolbag on and was shot dead, is the symbol of the barbarity to which an army of military occupation can stoop, just as, obviously, it is barbarous that Hamas should send Palestinian children to throw bombs at Israeli citizens. I believe, though, that we have the authority and the power not just to make appeals, but to say that the Israeli military occupation must stop. Let us rather give a voice to the Palestinians and Israelis who together are fighting for peace: there are many of them! It is these voices to which we should listen."@en1

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