"All the EU has done has been to issue statements: this is ineffective. Israel has been dealing with this for too long, it is now immune to it. And we, the Palestinians, are paying the price". The Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Riad Al Malki, was the guest speaker at the conference on Palestine organized by the International Affairs Institute in cooperation with La Stampa. "Time is running out for the Israelis - he stated - who fail to realize that the survival of Israel depends on the survival of the Palestinian state".