Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-05-Speech-3-085"
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"en.20060705.3.3-085"2
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"A dark cloud is hanging over the operation under way in Gaza. The further that operation progresses, the darker that cloud becomes! The summer rains that are flooding Gaza are not just pointless. They are above all entirely illegitimate. It is not legitimate to deprive 750 000 people of electricity, it is not legitimate to call upon 20 000 people to leave their homes in order to turn their town into a ghost town. It is not legitimate to penetrate Syrian airspace. It is not legitimate to kidnap a quarter of a government and a quarter of a parliament. A State acting in that way is no better than a terrorist organisation. These are not my words, they are those of a Jewish man, Mr Levy, this week on Haaretz.com. If the voices of reason are speaking out in Israel to condemn these crimes, why is the Council struck down dumb?
Its communiqué of 3 July does not go as far as that of Switzerland or Turkey! The European Union, which spent EUR 3 000 000 on observing the Palestinian elections, has been slow in reacting to the kidnapping of 64 members of the government and of the democratically-elected legislative Council, and is not calling for their immediate release.
The shelling of Gaza, the destruction of an electrical power station, the cutting off of water, are not causing any outcry. Despite the increasing numbers of deaths and the cycle of violence that is re-emerging, we are not hearing anybody say: enough, enough, enough! Stop this carnage, you have gone mad! Yes, I condemn the firing of Kassam rockets, yes, I want to see the release of the soldier Gilad, but I also want to see the release of the 339 Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons. If a soldier’s life is sacred, then so are the lives of children.
Above all, however, I am amazed that the European Union has not yet welcomed – though I would thank the Commissioner for doing so today – the historic step of the agreement on the document of the prisoners. Six months after the elections, Hamas and Islamic Jihad committed themselves implicitly to recognising Israel and to stopping the violence outside the territories. Not a word was said here though, just a deafening silence! Our humanitarian aid – and I support the Commissioner – is just about going to keep Palestine going. Yet is it still our ambition to help the Palestinian State to build its democracy? I put that question to the Council. Stop this scandal and ensure that international law is adhered to!"@en1
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