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“YOU cannot achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, except by addressing the key cause of the decades-long conflict — failure to achieve justice for Palestinians. It simply will not happen.”
This was the message delivered by both keynote speakers at a conference of communist parties on Saturday September 19.
Aida Touma-Sliman, of the political bureau of the Communist Party of Israel and member of the Knesset, and Dr Aqel Taqz, international secretary of the People’s Party of Palestine, were addressing a symposium organised by the Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain.
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