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"Madam President, the High Representative has the Socialist and Democratic Group’s support when she calls for talks in days not months, and says that this is decision time and that there must be no fake commitment to a two–state solution.
On the religious layer to the conflict, it seems that the preservation of the status quo may have been saved. But is this not a further example of us diffusing yet another additional aspect to the conflict – new provocations, temporary solutions – making us part of the cycle of violence rather than our contributing to solving its underlying causes?
On the violence itself, Ms Mogherini is right to recognise that the different sides experience different numbers of deaths, but as I listen in my own despair to the despair which fuels the violence, when I hear the rapidity with which commentators talk about a third Intifada, I want to note today that this is not yet organised violence and if the international community puts the same rapidity into seeking solutions as to predictions of a third Intifada, perhaps that would do best to avert it.
Ms Mogherini, you were right to talk to us about Palestinians and Israelis respecting and implementing past agreements, but that has to go for Europeans too and I join with colleagues in welcoming the commitment you gave to the Committee on Foreign Affairs to finally publish the guidelines on labelling of produce from illegal settlements. Tonight I ask you to set a deadline for this to be completed. My group believes that refraining from doing so does not advance the prospects of talks, but doing so shows that the failure to advance the peace process has consequences from us too.
Last week I talked with Muslim community representatives in my own region in the towns of Cambridge, Harlow and Luton and they told me once again what we should understand: the grievances are not only felt in Israel and Palestine. Deradicalisation within Europe is connected to deradicalisation for Palestinians and makes European action for de–escalation more urgent.
Finally, I join with those who remember with sorrow the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on the twentieth anniversary this week of that bloody act. His daughter said in a speech at Mr Rabin’s graveside yesterday: ‘there is no peace process’. There is no peace process. Let us hear and agree with her words and let us create one."@en1
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