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"Mr President, High Representative, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, there is an ideology – correct me if I am wrong – which unites us, or you, all: considering Camp David, Oslo and the Roadmap, what is our goal? Creating, in a territory which is smaller than Normandy or Belgium, which says it all – I am talking in terms of square kilometres, of course, for I would not be so impolite as to make other allusions – two states: two independent states, mind you, not one US state and one Russian state. High Representative, the foreign, structural policy which we are pursuing there is exactly the opposite of the policy we have been committed to for 50 years with a view to the day – for pity’s sake, it does not even occur to you because you are of sound mind, whereas I am a little nutty in the sense that I look forward to that day – when we can be citizens of the European Union without paying the price of being citizens of Italy, or France, or the United Kingdom. Certainly not, you are concerned solely with the states. We must resolve matters through states, by creating another Palestinian State. Never mind the fact that there could be another state, the State of Jordan, which is already a larger, stronger, more democratic Palestinian state than we could possibly imagine your Palestinian State to be.
state, for pity’s sake! Then there is the problem of the Lebanon, but you are not concerned with anything beyond the fact that it is a state, never mind that it is a cover for Syria and everything which is most execrable in that region, in Mediterranean Switzerland.
High Representative, Commissioner Patten, I know that the evil is present here too, first and foremost, in Parliament. We must fight alongside the antifascists and the anticommunists – with Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Robert Schuman, with those who conceived Europe not as a geographical entity but as the home of the law, of the
of literature, of democracy – against national bureaucracies, inadequate as vessels of freedom, liberation and prosperity. Now you are trying to impose this famous Roadmap. I was in Jerusalem with our fellow Members and I said: ‘The Roadmap? A day, a week, a month? Two Palestinian states? All these Foreign Ministers, all these thieving, corrupt ministers?’ Yes, they are thieving and corrupt, as are many French, Italians, Germans, British and Americans; but there, corruption has another dimension: it is corruption of the body, of freedom, of the law. We must not set them off along that road. We must not encourage it.
Would the High Commissioner kindly spend a brief moment telling us about our European army, which has, at last, been sent to the Congo? At last! And under whose control have we placed it? Focard’s heirs! I repeat: Focard’s heirs! We are entrusting peacekeeping in that area to those whose attempts at decolonisation have resulted in foul massacres which are worse than those of the colonial period.
I wish you luck, Mr President. I wish you luck, fellow Members. High Representative, Commissioner, I wish you luck. We need it. I look forward to the time when I, the Israelis and the Palestinians will have the right to citizenship which is not your or our prisons. We want to be free in the law and in freedom."@en1
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