Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-24-Speech-3-140"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-02-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Implementation of Goldstone recommendations on Israel/Palestine (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100224.17.3-140"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-02-24-Speech-3-1412
lpv:speaker	lp:Michał Tomasz Kamiński2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DEVE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AFCO (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2009-07-14--2011-02-20)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2009-07-16--2011-03-07)3 member; PETI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 chair; PECH (2009-07-16--2011-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Goldstone report is exceptionally unbalanced and unfair. It comes from the United Nations Human Rights Council, whose members include countries such as Iran, Nicaragua, Somalia and Libya. What right do those countries have, where respect for human rights has been reduced to zero, to evaluate Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East? The report comes from a very suspect source which is obsessively ill-disposed towards Israel. Out of the 25 resolutions on human rights which the UN Human Rights Council has adopted, as many as 20 are devoted to Israel. Not one of them is about the countries which are members of the Council, countries which, and I stress this, have an awful human rights record from women’s rights to electoral rights. I stress that this report is completely unbalanced. It attempts, in fact, to absolve the terrorist activity of Hamas. The report does not state the fundamental fact that, in the eight years before Israel, in its own defence, took action in the Gaza Strip, thousands of rockets were fired at innocent Israeli citizens. Every country has the right to defend itself against terrorists. Israel, too, has that right. It should also be said that 150 criminal investigations of the actions of particular Israeli soldiers are currently under way in Israel. In Israel, there is a free parliament, and there is a free press which often criticises its own government and its own armed forces. None of these features is to be found, unfortunately, on the terrorist side. I think, therefore, that this unbalanced and unfair report, which, in my opinion, attacks our main ally in the Middle East in a shameless fashion, should not be taken seriously."@en1
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