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Davis et al - continued

February 18, 2011 06:54
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The following letter is in today's JC:

Tzipi Livni’s endorsement of the call to Mick Davis to join the conversation is a little ironic, considering at the last elections her Kadima party refused to form a government with the other two leading elected parties.

Your leader stated “this newspaper has grave reservations about the current Israeli government’s genuine commitment to seeking a two state solution”. Your partisanship sits most uncomfortably alongside your tradition of being the 'organ of British Jewry', since a logical conclusion of this is that your editorials should reflect the wide range of opinions about Israel within the community.

The 'Palestinian Papers' have shown that to blame the breakdown of the peace talks on the government's unwillingness to extend the settlement freeze was a red herring since Palestinian negotiators had already conceded that most of the settlements would remain. And a freeze was offered, but in exchange for recognition of Israel, but Mahmoud Abbas vetoed it.