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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have to say that there are certain specific weapons available for preventing the situation in the Middle East from continuing to deteriorate and even, on the contrary, improving it: the weapon of diplomacy, which has been tried, which has been tested, but which is no longer accorded sufficient respect because diplomacy often gives way before the clash of military weapons. The other major weapon which is, on the other hand, effective and non-violent – the weapon of the law of the economy, of aid to developing countries, of aid to the poorest communities – has certainly not been used enough, and this is because it has even, on some occasions, been rejected in the dialogue between the countries who were to receive assistance and the assisting countries. The response from this House must clearly, once again, be ‘No’ to weapons and ‘No’ to suicide bomb attacks, but also ‘No’ to tanks and ‘No’ to retaliation.
Well then, what is the formula on which peace in the region should be based? Once again, it is a formula as old as the hills. Governments acting cooperatively within the framework of shared institutions and governments acting individually. The Italian Government has developed a plan, a proposal for economic aid – a sort of Marshall plan as it has been called, with good reason in my opinion, although there has been criticism of this – to the poorest country, Palestine. This is an important weapon which has not been used at all in recent years, although many States set aside considerable sums to help the peoples of the Middle East who were in most need of such assistance.
What do I find most disturbing? I think it is the conditions of degradation in which countless young people live in the refugee camps in Palestine from the moment they are born to the age at which they can start work. These camps are extremely dangerous breeding grounds. In my opinion, certain Arab governments have failed to give their brothers sufficient help: on the contrary, they have done nothing but incite them and tolerated movements within these countries which have led to the consequences we have witnessed recently.
Mention must be made of the United Nations, which has certainly played a role which has been exhausting, not least, and important but inadequate and, in any case, ineffective; an intervention force was needed and it has been called for on many occasions. In my opinion, reasoning, experience and history teach us how an intervention force can be employed effectively in this modern age, and yet no such force has been deployed.
What initiative can Europe, the European Union, pursue? It can reinforce the thrust of the UN initiatives, particularly the initiative to establish what could be an intervention force separating the two opposing nations."@en1
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