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People never change their views

Actually they do. Look at the distance that Henry Siegman, born in 1930, has traveled. Today he talks about apartheid and the disappearance of democracy in Israel and has suggested that the world recognize a Palestinian state. the need to impose a And in 1988, during the first intifada— Siegman was head of a Jewish organization and supported Israel’s deportation of a leading figure in nonviolent Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation:

AJCONGRESS SUPPORTS ISRAEL’S RIGHT TO DEPORT AWAD

NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — A statement released today by Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, maintains that Israel was completely within its rights, both under its own laws and international law, to expel Mubarak Awad. While noting that Israel may have committed an error in political judgment by expelling Awad, Siegman said "however one comes down on this question, Israel has done nothing illegal."

In the statement, Siegman expressed regrets that the U.S. administration…

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