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Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/30/opinion/edletters.php
The Wrong Platform
[International Herald Tribune] Signed by seven members of the European Parliament from Britain, France, Poland and Belgium - The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) has a proven record of anti-Israel bias, spreading propaganda that presents only the Palestinian narrative, including the delegitimization of Israel - a UN member state. The CEIRPP is first and foremost harmful to the UN. Its work only reinforces a long held Israeli suspicion vis-a-vis the UN and contributes nothing to the cause of peace. Its conference this week at the European Parliament will harm the cause of peace and also damage European credibility as an honest broker. As members of the European Parliament, we are shocked that this biased event would take place within our institutional premises. The European Parliament should not give them a platform in the only representative body of the European Union, whose goals are to foster dialogue and understanding, not acrimony, mistrust and despair.