(Middle East Online) - Eighteen members of the Arab League pledged to "reactivate" a half-century-old ban on trade with the Jewish state at the end of a four-day meeting in Damascus of the League's Boycott Office of Israel (BOI). The three League members with full diplomatic ties with the Jewish state - Egypt, Jordan, and Mauritania - did not attend.
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