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"Mr President, I am amazed by what I have just heard, and I regret that some people here still confuse Jews with Israelis.
We would not be facing such a huge humanitarian crisis if we had not started by stopping our aid to the Palestinian people. The Council of Ministers’ decision to cut aid and to endanger the Palestinian people was a serious mistake. There were other ways to apply pressure.
Since the suspension of that aid, has the Hamas Government made the slightest progress in terms of recognising the State of Israel? Has it finally decided to condemn the attacks? Not only has this policy of using the humanitarian crisis for the purposes of blackmail had no positive effect whatsoever, but it has actually led to suffering.
We are once again in a cycle of violence in which wrong is clearly being done by both sides; rockets fired into Israel, disproportionate reprisals by the Israeli army, the seizing of the soldier Shalit, who of course must be released, as everybody here has said.
Many players have continued to cooperate with Palestine. I am thinking in particular of the many European local groups who met in Brussels last week. Furthermore, as President Brok said, the Quartet must allow intervention on the ground.
Finally, allow me to express my great regret at the fact that the European Parliament's resolution voted on last month made no reference to the statement of the Palestinian prisoners, because I believe that that text is the most encouraging sign for the Palestinian authority led by Mahmoud Abbas, which we must support."@en1
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