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September 16, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-palestinians-should-support-normalization-with-israel

Why Palestinians Should Support "Normalization" with Israel

(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Mohammed S. Dajani - When I accompanied Palestinian students to Auschwitz to teach them about the Holocaust, it was considered "normalization" and condemned as treason. The anti-normalization campaign fails to see that the Palestinian cause must be won inside of Israel and that normalization is an essential step in the process to end the conflict. This campaign contradicts the 1993 Oslo Accords, which called for the end of incitement and encourages the process of normalization. Anti-normalization undermines the peace process, blocking the possibility of reconciliation and conflict resolution. The writer, a Fellow at The Washington Institute, founded the Wasatia movement of moderate Islam and previously worked as a professor of political science at al-Quds University in Jerusalem.

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