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"Madam President, the election in Palestine was conducted in an exemplary fashion. I should like to congratulate the Palestinians and say a big thank you to my colleagues. There are still problems in Israel and Palestine, however. Palestine is occupied. The fact is highlighted in a list of UN resolutions, which criticise Israel’s ongoing breaches of international law, as well as the settlements, the dreadful Wall and the attempt to annex East Jerusalem – just to mention the worst problems.
The difficult situation in Palestine is mentioned in the common motion for a resolution, which contains a number of constructive points. The proposal sets out the relevant conditions for Hamas. We must keep a careful watch to ensure that Hamas does not again have recourse to terrorism, it now having kept the peace for more than a year. Certainly, we must not take away the right they have under the Geneva Convention to armed resistance to the occupation, but we must make determined and carefully considered efforts to ensure that the situation does not get out of control. All non-governmental groups should be disarmed both in Palestine and among the Israeli settlers. We must discourage any form of radicalisation in both Palestine and Israel.
The motion for a resolution that is before us might well be read as a unilateral recognition and, if we are to help bring about peace, that would of course be dangerous. I would therefore call on Members to vote in favour of the amendments by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, especially the amendment to paragraph 10, which contains a very clear formulation of the Council’s decision not to publish the report on East Jerusalem, prepared by the Heads of Delegation in Palestine. Once this report’s criticism of the situation in East Jerusalem, together with the attendant recommendations, have been clearly withdrawn, the motion for a resolution will be a tool well suited to making further progress towards a just peace between Israel and Palestine.
I would call on us to be consistent now. We do not have sufficient credibility among the Palestinians, and it is time we did so."@en1
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