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Published: 24 July 2016

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Encountering peace: Anti-anti-normalisation – Gershom Baskin – The Jerusalem Post 20.07.16
The main problem with the logic of the anti-normalisation campaign is that Israel’s control over Palestinian territories will never end without an Israeli-Palestinian agreement and that is not possible without Israel and the Palestinians talking to each other… Enemies never end their conflicts by not talking. The goal of Palestinian society should be to engage every single Israeli everywhere in Israel – especially right-wing Israelis.
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Members of the Geneva Initiative and Likud Central Committee are blocked from entering Ramallah because they planned to meet with Palestinian president Abbas and senior Fatah official Mohammed al-Madani, whose permit to enter Israel was revoked by the Defence Minister last month.

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