(European Jewish Press) Abraham H. Foxman - The Icelandic parliament voted on Nov. 29 to recognize Palestine "as an independent and sovereign state" based on the pre-1967 borders. A report by the center-right minority on the Icelandic parliament's foreign affairs committee assailed the reasoning behind the proposal as unfair both to Israel and to history. The minority also felt compelled to remind the Icelandic government that the conflict is fundamentally about "the mere existence of the State of Israel"; Hamas is a terrorist organization bent on Israel's destruction; the 1993 Oslo Accords specified no unilateral change in status of the territories; and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority refuse to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. The writer is National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
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