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To: texasbluebell
Pro-Palestinian group won't sign letter condemning terrorism

BY MICHAEL PETROCELLI : The Herald-Sun
Sep 20, 2004 : 8:02 pm ET

DURHAM -- A spokesman for the planners of a pro-Palestinian student conference at Duke University said his group will not sign a statement condemning terrorism, as campus Jewish groups have requested.

Condemning Palestinian organizations' methods would violate the guidelines of the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, said Rann Bar-On, a member of the affiliated Duke group Hiwar.

"We don't see it as very useful for us as a solidarity movement to condemn violence," he said. "That will not achieve any particular goal."

Excerpted. Entire article at link:

http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-524213.html

2,012 posted on 09/24/2004 8:55:04 PM PDT by Oorang ( Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Oorang

That figures.


2,014 posted on 09/24/2004 9:00:26 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Oorang

This is not surprising.


2,016 posted on 09/24/2004 9:17:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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