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UNESCO to go ahead with disputed Jewish exhibition
Reuters
Published: 27.01.14, 23:01
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1. NOTHING... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.. WILL HARM THE ME PEACE TALKS
stude ham   (01.27.14)
because there never ever have been any such things as ME peace talks... nor will there ever be.
2. Build and settle the Land.
(01.27.14)
3. Why June, and not February?
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (01.28.14)
The exhibit is ready to go, so there's no reason for further delay. Is UNESCO just putting it off until after Kerry's 9-month peace process runs its initial course (by which point Israel can be blamed), or just hoping that something will come up in the meantime to provide another excuse not to host the exhibit? Or maybe they want to give the Palestinians time to develop their own, competitive exhibit. That shouldn't be difficult, given that this is the UN's "Year of Palestine". I'm sure there is enough surplus propaganda back in NY they can ship over to Geneva for that exhibit.
4. (3) Why not now and not in June
tiki ,   belgium   (01.28.14)
Because until June many excuses can be found to ''postpone it again! The UNESCO Arab/Palestinian world will find any excuse not to share this exhibit with the world. To show the 3.5 thousand year connection between Jews & Israel is something which must be prevented at all costs. Their whole existence & reason of living depends on it.
5. I know what's going to happen next
Jacob E ,   Holon, Israel   (01.28.14)
The Palis are going to put up an exhibit about the 3501 year history of Islam in "Palestine"
6. #3 Raymond - The Palestinian exhibit is already showing @ UN
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & NYC   (01.28.14)
The end of the article says that "the U.N. headquarters in New York is hosting an exhibit entitled 'Palestine' based entirely on the Arab narrative" Thus, delaying the Jewish one (that undermines Palestinian claims) had to be canceled lest it contradict the one in NY
7. not true at all
tom ,   toronto, canada   (01.28.14)
the "piece" talks in 2010 did not "break down in 2010 in a dispute over israeli settlement construction", but floundered because of barack obama's ham-fisted approach, which imposed the plo's precondition of a settlement freeze on israel, but did not demand a resumption of talks from the plo. so naturally, the plo stonewalled and boycotted the talks, to drag out the construction freeze as long as possible before trashing the negotiations. amateurishly played by washington, and blamed on israel.
8. Obama refused to co-sponser
DemocracyRules ,   Canada   (01.29.14)
The Wiesenthal Center also invited the US to co-sponsor the exhibit, but the State Department refused the invitation. Their letter of Jan. 9, 2014, cited the “sensitive juncture in the ongoing Middle East peace process.”
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