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"Madam President, I too am under the impression that the European Parliament has more important things to consider today than another unfortunate incident in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
I would like to say that, to me, the complaints about the issue of media freedom sound completely hollow. I would like to tell you that press freedom does exist in Israel. Israel is a country where not only can the media freely criticise the government – and they do this very frequently – but in the Israeli parliament there are Members of Parliament who are fighting against the government, who constitute an opposition to it, and there are also Palestinian Members of Parliament, Arab Members of Parliament, who are completely opposed to the existence of the state of Israel. Israel sets democratic standards that would make us all very happy if they were observed throughout the Arab world, but unfortunately this is not the case. I must also add that one of today’s speakers, Mr Murphy, who uses the language of violence in this Chamber, to some extent compromises at least some of those who tabled this resolution. I would like to say that this is the language with which the masses were called to overthrow capitalism, the language that brought unfathomable suffering to the country that I represent, Poland, as well as to Russia and all of Central and Eastern Europe. This is the language that is still bringing suffering to Cuba and to North Korea. I wish to say ‘no’ to communism!"@en1
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