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"Mr President, I have two final comments: first, there has not been one day’s delay in this procedure due to any statement, position or unilateral decision on my part. I was not the original rapporteur for this procedure, but became the rapporteur unwillingly. All of the decisions in this procedure, and in fact the procedure as a whole, have been handled with the utmost transparency and full agreement of the committee. The accusation made against me by a representative of Israeli interests in this Parliament is not only stupid, but also discredits the person making the accusation. Second, my objection to this proposal and my original position as rapporteur have nothing to do with Israeli policy. They concern us and the consistency that the Treaty requires our external policies to have. My position has always been that it is the consistency of the Union’s external policies which is at stake. I cannot see how it is possible to condemn Israel for what it is doing in relation to the Occupied Territories and then, at the same time, when we have an opportunity to put pressure on Israel to take notice of our condemnations, to give it a prize of this nature. Tomorrow Israel will be laughing like mad at our policy positions, because it knows that they are purely self-serving and hypocritical, and that when it comes to enforcing them, we cannot.
Lastly, I must make a personal statement: I do not belong to any anti-Israeli movement; I do not belong to any friends of Palestinians association; I owe nothing to either side – I repeat, I owe nothing to either side – and I would like everyone speaking in this debate to be able to say the same thing with the same frankness."@en1
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