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Northern Ireland peace broker on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Published: 6 December 2016

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George Mitchell rejects ‘apartheid’ label for Israeli-Palestinian conflict: ‘It is a misapplication of the word’ – Carrie Sheffield – Salon 03.12.16
‘One of the difficulties in this whole area of conflict not unique to Israelis and Palestinians is that there is widespread and deep mistrust, hostility, demonisation of those who are different, and that leads to inflammatory rhetoric which reinforces all of the hostilities and in fact deepens them. So I think a good step forward … is to decline to use inflammatory words. Particularly when they don’t apply to the situation.’ Includes video (5:14].

And see:

How politicians perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict September 20, 2016

What’s in a word? – “Apartheid”
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