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"Mr President, funding is threatening the very existence of Palestinian institutions and there is a very real risk that they will collapse. Teachers and doctors have not been paid for months and it is the Palestinian people, civilians, who are paying the price of the EU’s position, which represents a collective punishment against the Palestinian people for their democratic choices. Not only that, but it is also utterly counter-productive. To suspend funding is to undermine the very political and judicial reforms which the EU has been supporting; to suspend funding is to drive people into the arms of extremists and into the arms of Iran in particular, with risks of much greater fundamentalist influence.
You talk about principles, but it is vital that the EU is consistent. You cannot make demands of Hamas that you do not make of Israel. Yes, mutual recognition and an end to violence on both sides are urgently needed, but it has to be on both sides. Israel has to recognise Palestine and to stop its state violence too. So my question to the Council is this: in the coming days the Israeli Government will be formed. Will the Council ask the new Israeli Government if it is committed to the roadmap and to the past agreement as presented by the Quartet, and will it ask if the Israeli Government is committed to a cessation of violence against the Palestinians, just as we ask Hamas to do all in its power to end violence against Israel?"@en1
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