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Mr President, we are calling for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit and we are calling for the release of 9 000 Palestinian prisoners – of whom 128 are women, 300 are adolescents and 900 are being detained without trial. The Israeli army’s offensive on Gaza and the unprecedented seizure of a third of the Palestinian Ministers, of the President of Parliament and of many Hamas Members of Parliament, have nothing really to do with the desire to free that soldier. These plans had been in place well before his capture. The Olmert Government took this opportunity to try to take a decisive step towards a well-established and now well-known strategy.
Firstly, the idea is to depose the Palestinian Government, even if it means all that remains of the Palestinian Authority of President Abbas being destroyed in the process. Then, as always, they will say that there is no Palestinian interlocutor to negotiate with. The way will then be open for Israel to impose its borders unilaterally. The regrouping of the settlements into three great blocs, which are easier to defend, the dividing up of the Palestinian territories and the annexation of almost half of the West Bank, of the Jordan Valley and of East Jerusalem and the continued construction of the wall: in short, a
destroying any hope of a Palestinian State deserving of the term.
Finally, the chaos thereby generated within Palestinian society will make it possible to justify continuing use of force, in the name of the essential need for security. This strategy is not just monstrous for the Palestinian people. It may well mean that the Israelis themselves have a nightmarish future in store. How can they expect docile Palestinian leaders and a consenting population to emerge, as if by a miracle, from such a collapse? He who sows despair, reaps violence.
Palestinian society is in danger of concluding that playing the game of democracy has brought them nothing but more misfortune. Faced with such a challenge, is the European Union going to let the Palestinian institutions that it has spent 12 years helping to create be destroyed? Is it going to abandon the Palestinian President in the middle of this turmoil, when, together with the head of the government, he has just achieved something that nobody dared hope for, that is the conclusion of an agreement recognising Israel and opening up the way to a government of national unity?
Or is it going to have the will and the courage, which I have not noticed on the part of the Council – something I regret – to make its mark by demanding the release of the Hamas leaders, by re-establishing appropriate aid and active cooperation with the Palestinian authority and government, and stating clearly the obligations of all States without exception according to international law and the Geneva Conventions.
I believe that it is in this area, and from this moment on, that Europe is going to be staking much of the credibility of the Euro-Mediterranean project and its credibility as a global player in general."@en1
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