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"en.20060119.3.4-023"2
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"Mr President, this period is an important opportunity for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. I expect the elections next week will result in Hamas being elected and represented. Europe must decide how to deal with them. We cannot exclude them, and indeed the Israeli Government must be encouraged to accept the will of the Palestinian people in respect of who they select as their representatives, no matter how difficult that may be for them – and I quite understand that it will be difficult.
We have to engage with Hamas after the elections on a conditional basis to encourage complete abandonment of violent means in pursuit of its political objectives. The Israeli Government must come to realise that missiles, demolitions, apartheid walls and assassinations will not guarantee or bring it sustainable peace. Political engagement with the enemy is necessary, otherwise there will be no peace. Most of all, Israel’s current government must realise that a sustainable peace is not possible without a sustainable Palestinian State.
A ‘Swiss cheese’ Palestinian State on the West Bank, with the Israelis controlling the cheese and the Palestinians controlling the holes, will not work and will not deliver peace to Israel in the long term. What has been absent up to now is a mutual respect for each other’s rights and for each other’s humanity. We must work to ensure that those two aspects of a political solution in the Middle East are developed."@en1
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