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"Mr President, together with my fellow Member, Mr McMillan-Scott, I had the opportunity yesterday evening to spend three quarters of an hour with President Abbas, and I should like sincerely to convey to you how shocked we felt at the latest events and how angry they made us feel.
You said, Mr President, that these were fateful or chance events. In fact, they had nothing to do with either fate or chance. The fact that the prison in Jericho was attacked at a period when the Palestinian President was in Europe to plead his cause, taking Saeb Erakat, the strong man of Jericho, with him, owes nothing to chance. The current pantomime of half-naked, blindfolded prisoners with their hands tied together owes nothing to chance in a country that, as we know, is in torment. The least thing can spark off violence, and caricature is never far away.
We are therefore faced now with an extremely serious event which, as Mr Brok has just said, is aimed at undermining the man who is the guarantor of stability between Palestine and Israel but who is also the guarantor of resistance to Hamas, which he would see become a force for peace. It is these objectives that an attempt has today been made to undermine.
I do not know who will benefit from this crime, but what I do know is that we in the European Parliament must neither be fooled nor share responsibility for this crime, which we must condemn.
It is true that the situation is difficult and that negotiations were under way concerning the prisoner, Mr Saadate. It is true that the latter had been implicated in the murder of an Israeli minister, a murder that itself followed on from the killing of a PFLP leader. Are we to continue this cycle of violence? No, we must not. We need to keep a cool head, but we also need firmly to condemn what happened yesterday. The situation is really extremely serious."@en1
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