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"Mr President, we have heard about Corporal Shalit and those responsible should release the poor kid now. We have heard a lot less about Maria Aman. She will never again use her arms or legs; she is just three years old and her spinal cord was destroyed by Israeli shrapnel. That is what you get when you drop shells on a busy street in Gaza. The Israeli army killed more than 12 Palestinian children last month, but what do they care? The Israeli Prime Minister says that the lives of Israelis are more important than those of Palestinians. Israel is diverting attention from the agreement between Fatah and Hamas that recognises the 1967 borders. What more does Israel want? It will use any pretext to avoid going back to the roadmap. It has no intention of negotiating a two-state solution.
But where is the challenge from Europe? There is none; our double standards are just rank. We ignore Israeli racism and stand by with scarcely a word of protest as Israel imposes collective punishment on the people of Gaza. Our words about justice are never matched by our deeds.
Europe has an opportunity here to move the agenda forward by telling the world that we embrace the prisoners’ document and that we will deal with the Palestinian Government. But all the evidence is that the Council and the Commission will not have the courage to do that. We make the Palestinians jump through hoops, but we let the Israelis get away with bloody murder."@en1
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