Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-14-Speech-3-447-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-09-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110914.29.3-447-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Nick Griffin2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, EUR 1 billion every year: that is the amount of taxpayers’ money that the Commission and Member States give to the Palestinian Authority. EUR 1 billion a year to a corrupt regime that does very little for its own people, while ordinary voters in our countries are crushed by rising taxes and inflation. It is unreal. Worse than that, EU policy is based on the false concept that a two-state solution is workable. It might have been once, but it is too late now. The Palestinians are geographically dispersed: over two million live east of the 1947 armistice lines, a million in Gaza, and about a million in Israel. In the Occupied Territories, the illegal Zionist settlement programme has sliced their land into disjointed parcels. Even if all the territories conquered in 1967 were included, Palestine would still be only 22% of the territory of the current Greater Israel. It would be an economic basket case, forever reliant on foreign aid handouts. The two-state solution sounds pretty, but it is simply not realistic. Yet again, the EU is throwing money away on a policy doomed to failure. We must accept that we cannot solve every problem in the world. We should turn our attention and money to solving our own. Let us face it: thanks to the euro disaster, this place is not going to run out of problems. EU meddling in the Holy Land is not only stealing money from overtaxed British families; combined with even more massive US aid for Israel it encourages both sides to refuse to get serious about sorting out their own differences. None of it helps real people. It is a counterproductive waste of EUR 1 billion a year."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Nick Griffin (NI ). -"1
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