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"Mr President, this is the moment of historic hope for the Middle East. A huge number of people are valiantly moving towards better times: Palestinians who tackle people who attack Israeli citizens, Israelis who hand back huge regions to the Palestinians as a first step towards two states, but above all, the Lebanese, who are fighting on the streets for better times without Syrian interference. These courageous people, along with all peace-loving people in the Middle East, deserve our support.
The biggest threat to the peace process is now Hezbollah, to which organisation we in Europe adopt a naïve and implausible attitude, drawing a distinction between the military Hezbollah and the political Hezbollah. This distinction is not realistic, for they are both run by one and the same leader, namely Mr Nasrallah. He himself admits that there is no distinction, and his second-in-command recently stated on television, and I quote
: ‘We believe that the political activity is integrated in the military operations, because they are inextricably linked to the political activity’. Then there are those people in the Lebanese Parliament, with whom some in this Chamber would like to do business, and their leader, Hussein Hay Hassan, who himself says: ‘Hezbollah is an organisation in which all fighters are politicians and military at the same time. The way in which some in the West view our organisation is incorrect’.
This is coming from the people of Hezbollah themselves. It is high time we had the courage to send a clear message to an organisation which has links with Syria and Iran, which attacks innocent citizens and speaks out in no uncertain terms against the peace process and against Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon.
Two weeks ago, the Council’s representative stated: ‘We are keeping an eye on Hezbollah. If they adopt a bad attitude, we will consider extra measures’. If we now see what is happening, namely protests and threatening language in Beirut which goes against the process, then I think that it is time for action. Many fine words are spoken here about the protesters, but what these courageous people now need is not fine words, but clear action and unambiguous decisions. The time has come to say how matters really stand. Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation and must be placed on the European list of terror organisations. The courageous people in the Middle East deserve us finally having the courage to speak this clear language."@en1
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