Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-267"
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"Madam President, first I wish to say that, hearing this debate, I have felt that the overall picture is somewhat limited. Any educated member of the public following it might think that very many Members of the European Parliament had very limited knowledge about the history of the Palestinian and Israeli region. How did the state of Israel come about? What was the Balfour Declaration and so on? What was the UN resolution at the time? What was the basis for the partition? It is shameful of us parliamentarians if we do not first do our homework but instead come and speak very emotionally about things we do not necessarily know about. That is why it is fitting to stop and consider what the issue actually is in this region, and take an overall view of it instead of just hinting at it momentarily.
We Europeans must support democracy and not terrorism. Our values are human rights, freedom of thought and the rule of law. We have to keep to them. Moreover, if they are our values we cannot recognise the ‘national unity government’, which is a terrorist organisation led by Hamas. We cannot acknowledge them: as Europeans we have to adhere to our democratic values."@en1
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