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Kairos Canada wrong to pooh-pooh Middle East plan, says HonestReporting head
February 19, 2020
Re: “Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East should be rejected, says NGO,” (The Hill Times, Feb. 12, p. 8). Kairos wants Canada to reject the Trump peace plan designed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not surprisingly, this position is in lockstep with the Palestinians, whose rejectionist tendencies, anti-democratic credentials, support for terror, and intransigence to peace are well known.
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