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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Palestine: violence or non-violence

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Palestine: violence or non-violence

Asked in Berlin on 24 October about the closing window of opportunity for the two-state solution John Kerry said "The current situation – the status quo – is unsustainable", quoting President Obama at the UN. On 19 October the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin opening a conference on From Hatred of the Stranger to Acceptance of the Other said that the time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society. Some of the context was internal divisions within the Jewish community, but Rivlin "wondered aloud whether Jews and Arabs had abandoned the secret of dialogue. With regard to Jews he said: ‘I’m not asking if they’ve forgotten how to be Jews, but if they’ve forgotten how to be decent human beings. Have they forgotten how to converse?’ ”

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