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“All the Palestinians I met with were assassinated”

Published: 26 August, 2009, 15:36

Gaza City : A graffiti of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and assassinated Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) deputy leader Abu Jihad (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)

“Making peace in the Middle East is a very dangerous profession,” told RT Uri Avneri, the first Israeli journalist to personally meet and interview the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat in July 1982 in Beirut.

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armen08 August 26, 2009, 22:56 quote

I wonder what the rulings would be, if a Nuremberg type of trial was held today and all past and present Israeli leaders were called to answer to their crimes against the Palestinian people.

aremen09 August 27, 2009, 22:20 quote

That's what you got out of this? You do understand that it was the Palestinians killing those looking for peace right? Or, is your statement just a statement of hate or rationalizing the assassinations or just out of the blue?

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