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"Mr President, the situation in Palestine is very tense. The population has been hit by a brutal blockade, because they have chosen people the West does not like. Now they are isolated behind Israel’s dividing wall, with no ability to create a healthy economy for themselves. The only people to gain from what is now happening are the extremists. There is, in actual fact, an imminent danger of everything exploding.
I was one of seven Members of Parliament’s five large groups who visited the area two weeks ago and had meetings with representatives of all the parties in the Palestinian Parliament, including Change and Reform, which is Hamas’s parliamentary wing. It became clear that they recognise the pre-1967 borders and, therefore, Israel. Hamas has now, for 18 months, refrained from using serious violence against Israel, while Israel has systematically bombarded Gaza and frequently killed civilians, including children. Hamas has not set its face against the PLO sticking to the negotiating policy it has adopted. If the EU really wished to do so, it would not, in short, be difficult for it to find means of cooperating with the Palestinian authorities so that peaceful development might be strengthened and Hamas made more democratic.
That is not, however, what we are doing. Moreover, we accept a situation in which Israel sets aside all of the EU’s conditions. The EU’s and the United States’s double standard is all too apparent. Why should Israel not recognise Palestine and the pre-1967 borders? Why should they not respect the ruling given by the Court of Justice in The Hague and remove the illegal wall? Why should they not call a halt to the annexation of East Jerusalem? In defiance of the so-called roadmap etc, they are now putting up buildings in E1. Why should they not pay the Palestinians’ own money back, that is to say all the money that they are illegally withholding? Mr Solana has said that they ought to do so. Mrs Ferrero-Waldner has also now said very clearly that they should do so. They are not doing so, however, and absolutely nothing is happening. Lawlessness is on the increase, and it is our, that is to say the EU’s, responsibility because we allow Israel blithely to ignore all the agreements. When we meet the Palestinians, it is, however, impossible to explain the double standard we have got used to exercising in relation to Israel. They cannot understand this approach, our employment of which is perhaps the absolutely most dangerous thing we are doing at the moment. It is not our money dealings but our unsustainable double standard that is the problem."@en1
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