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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that what is currently happening in the Middle East is very different from what we might have thought until a few days ago.
In fact, I believe that the Middle East is gradually getting closer and is even right on our doorstep. We can see this in speeches with which, in some cases, I could not disagree more, such as Mrs Morgantini’s speech, but not just hers. Indeed, I believe that the terrorist attacks that we are witnessing within Europe must be taken into account.
We cannot suddenly just consider the issue of the murder of Sheikh Yassin. As a Catholic, I reject any idea of one day hitting someone: not killing them, but just hitting them. In my opinion, this is not, however, the point. I believe that if we want to guarantee our citizens peace, tranquillity and serenity in the future, we need to draw up a very different proposal and follow very different lines of thinking.
Europe, as such, cannot just be a mouthpiece for a message in terms of European funding for the Middle East area. Europe must put forward a genuine and specific proposal. I believe that this can be done, and in this case I appeal to Commissioner Patten and the Irish Council Presidency to call for an end to the conflicts. I believe that this could once again give politics a real voice and not just an issue on which to speculate in this Chamber.
For those who, like me, have experienced terrorism – a different type of terrorism, ‘red terrorism’ – and have seen a bomb in the house and a brother get out through a window, political words meant nothing at the time, in the eighties. The answer that we found – as a young person at the time – was unique and truly incredible: there was a unity in purpose to achieve a single objective: to combat terrorism.
I believe that this can only be done if we, as Europe, are aware of this and at the very least now compile a list of terrorist associations to be assessed at an international level. I believe that everything else is just idle chitchat."@en1
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