Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-12-Speech-3-144"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011212.4.3-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-12-Speech-3-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Pannella2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2000-09-04--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, we are continuing to conduct an anti-Israeli campaign in the style of Picasso’s with children’s bodies, usually, elsewhere, the victims of the US, here victims of the Israelis. Commissioner Patten and we ourselves, with this draft motion, are rushing to provide the Palestinians, at last, with what they need, with what the Palestinian men and women – the Arabs, moreover, in general – and the victims of the dictatorships in the Arab world are certainly demanding. We are making promises to Mr Arafat and we are agreeing to fight, but for what? To give them rights? To give them what all the human rights declarations in the world, including the European declarations, fail to recognise as an individual right? So you want to give them a national State. This is precisely what they need: another Syrian or Yemeni national State, a State of whatever kind; they need a national State. Commissioner Patten, maybe this is what we need in Italy too to solve our problems; maybe this is what you need in Great Britain to solve yours, would you not say? The illusion of possible national independence affects Israel too. You wanted a Yugoslav national entity which would be neutral towards both parties. Our pleas for democracy and Europe went unheeded. Do not take sides. Be good Samaritans. Mrs Morgantini is probably all set to call upon the Israeli soldiers to desert, as, on Italian television broadcast throughout the world, she urged the US and British soldiers to desert in the Afghanistan war. You are the just like the pacifists and communists of 1938 who supported nazism and urged the allies and the French to desert in that war. Well then, if this is what you are going to continue to propose, I feel that it is our duty to point out that the Palestinians and all the citizens in the world – but the Palestinians, in particular – have the right to say “no”, as do we on their behalf, to this illusion. If there were three States – Jordan, Palestine and Israel – the State of Jordan would go immediately, and there would immediately be attempts to use Palestine to eliminate this oasis of democracy between Israel and Palestine representing a third of the democracy in the Middle East. An emphatic ‘no’ to this document, which places a condition on continuing our cooperation with Israel and places no condition on our supporting Yasser Arafat. Well then: this Europe, this Palestine and this Arab world are, quite frankly, not ours. We will vote accordingly."@en1

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