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"Mr President, I am going to speak on the same subject as Mr Bigliardo but I have something different to say. I am sorry – as I believe we all are – that Mrs Morgantini has suffered such an experience, but not because she is a Member of the European Parliament but because she is a European citizen: in other words, I would be just as concerned for any other European citizen. However, even before Mr Bigliardo spoke, I wanted to ask that, in tomorrow’s debate on the events in Israel and Palestine, the Commission call upon all the European citizens who are not officials of the United Nations, NATO or the European Union to refrain from indulging in macabre tourism out of curiosity and false solidarity. Those who go to a land where there is a genuine war taking place do so completely at their own risk and peril and cannot hope to involve the international community. They do not need any of this sort of tourism down there: our solidarity must be displayed within our own towns and countries and in parliamentary chambers. Two or three delegations of left-wing members of the Italian parliament have been stopped at Tel Aviv airport and sent home again: they did no more than visit the inside of the airport, creating further disturbance and generating further concern. I do not think there is any need for this. I therefore ask the Commission to call explicitly on the European citizens not to indulge in this sort of tourism."@en1

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