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Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070813-0601-eu-palestinians-israel.html
Israel Protests European Parliament Plan to Host Anti-Israel Conference
[Reuters/San Diego Union-Tribune] Israel's ambassador to the EU wrote to the president of the European Parliament last week urging reconsideration of plans to host a conference at the end of August under the auspices of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which was established in 1975 and Israel considers anti-Israel. The leader of the Conservative group in the European Parliament, Timothy Kirkhope, said he was concerned that the event might be used to provide a platform for Hamas. "That would be unhelpful for the Israelis and also to the Palestinians themselves," he said.