Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-12-Speech-3-147"

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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	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011212.4.3-147"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-12-Speech-3-1482
lpv:speaker	lp:Frédérique Ries2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2003-06-11)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti réformateur libéral/Front démocratique des francophones (1999-07-20--2004-02-11)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the war in the Middle East has been going on for over a year now. The Intifada and the Israeli reprisals continue, and the number of dead on both sides is growing. We feel impotent, concerned and extremely angry. The extent of our anger is a measure of the hope we felt last year when the Middle East was within a whisker of a peace agreement. We can blame Ariel Sharon for his policy of ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. However Mr Sharon was not in power when Ehud Barak, Shlomo Ben Ami and Bill Clinton tried to persuade Yasser Arafat to sign a peace agreement which would have been historic. That said, the past is the past, as Commissioner Patten so rightly said. We still want to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel, to paraphrase the words of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. We want to believe that the unprecedented appeal the European Union sent on Monday will be noted. Contrary to what was previously said in the House, this appeal was sent to both parties. It presents Israel with her responsibilities, but for the first time the European Union makes an equally clear appeal to Mr Arafat to dismantle the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist networks. There may be light in that yesterday Israel recognised that the Palestinian Authority had, for the first time, begun to take serious action to combat fundamentalists. There is also light in that Mr Arafat has admitted, quite objectively, that the European Union’s appeal is fair. At lunchtime today, the Israeli Nurit Peled-Elhanan, winner of the Sakharov Prize 2001, expressed the hope that the voices of the mothers of the Middle East would drown out the voices of those calling for arms. We also hope and want to believe that European Union’s voice will ring out loud and clear and help re-establish a spirit of hope."@en1

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