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"We can only welcome the end of the occupation and the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem: this is a glimmer of light at the end of an extremely dark tunnel. The prospect of peace in the Middle East began to fade when the two cornerstones that are equally necessary for a political agreement to be reached were called into question. These are the legitimacy and the security of the Israeli State and the need for the Palestinian people to own a State.
These two cornerstones have recently been subject to particularly formidable attacks, however. By adopting a strategy of terror in the form of the second uprising, which sees suicide bombers blowing themselves up in order to slaughter civilians, the Palestinians have plumbed new depths in their pursuit of anti-Israeli violence. This violence now serves to take them one step further away from the Palestinian State. The greater part of the majority party in Israel has just declared itself against a Palestinian State, thus undermining one of the bases of a political resolution. We must, on both counts, find a way out of this dead end.
Mr Solana, you spoke – and this is the key to the resumption of the peace process – of the urgent need to reform the Palestinian Authority, which will involve exercising a genuine sense of responsibility and the rejection of terrorism. Only the Palestinian people can take this step, but our aid must be strictly linked to these changes. European taxpayers, Mr President, will no longer agree to continue to provide ambiguous aid to an ambiguous Authority; they will only agree to grant justified aid to an Authority which behaves like a constantly evolving State."@en1
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