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"Mr President, if Abu Allah’s period of office is to be longer than Abu Massen’s, and if he is to have any kind of chance of combating terrorism, Israel must not provoke the Palestinian population the whole time and undermine all the attempts on the part, for example, of Abu Abbas, to stop the violence. Remember what happened the day after he had got the Palestinian leaders to enter into a unilateral ceasefire. Israel liquidated Hamas leaders in the street, an act that was of course no better than a terrorist attack, for, when Hamas leaders are liquidated, their wives and children and casual passers-by are also killed. Nor, of course, is an occupying power entitled to kill in the street those who are engaged in resistance.
I believe that until the West makes it fully clear that we condemn the liquidations perpetrated by Israel just as strongly as we condemn suicide bombers; until we make it abundantly clear to Israel that it must call a halt to the settlements; and until we make it crystal clear that, as long as it holds Palestine in an iron grip of oppression and violence, there can be no peace, we make it completely impossible for any Palestinian Prime Minister to put a stop to the violence.
When I was last in Palestine with the delegation, there were three deaths in just the few days that I was there. A little boy died when an olive stone went down his throat the wrong way. There was a curfew, so no doctor went out to him, and he therefore died. An old man died at the checkpoint. He said that he had a bad heart, but the soldiers refused to allow him to pass the checkpoint, and they looked on as he died there of a heart attack. A patient died in an ambulance on the way to hospital because it too was not allowed to pass the checkpoint.
Until we begin to condemn such things just as roundly, there will be no peace in the Middle East."@en1
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