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Trump Repeating Kerry's Insistence that Palestinians Halt International Campaign Against Israel before Peace Talks


(Atlantic) Grant Rumley - This week, the Trump administration threatened to close the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the Palestinians did not immediately halt their campaign at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and agree to engage in the peace process. In response, the PLO announced Tuesday that it would halt all contacts with American officials. American officials have always seen this international campaign against Israel as a nuisance. At the start of peace negotiations in 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry insisted the Palestinians halt the campaign in order to participate. The writer is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
2017-11-22 00:00:00
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