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The Palestine News & Information Agency WAFA announced it. It said PLO Central Council officials will meet in a few days. They'll "discuss political developments" following Palestine's UN upgrade.
Required PA changes will be addressed. So will relations among the PLO, PA, and other Palestinian institutions. An earlier decision delegated PA government and parliamentary duties to the Central Committee.
Acknowledging Palestinian statehood stops short of governing like one. Full UN membership isn't sought. Nor is filing war crimes charges against culpable Israeli officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On January 4, Ilan Pappe headlined "Can we find compassion for Israelis in 2013?"
He visited old Haifa acquaintances. They're embarrassed about today's Israel. It's "painfully" evident in plain sight. Pappe understood decades ago. He forthrightly explained in books, articles, and public addresses.
He quoted Britain's Thomas Rapp's 1950 comments. He "foresaw the future." He "warned his superiors," saying:
"The younger generation is being brought up in an environment of militarism and thus a permanent threat to the Middle East tranquillity is thereby being created and Israel would thus tend to move away from the democratic way of life towards totalitarianisms of the right or the left."
Pappe said today's Israel reflects "the totalitarianism of the right." Many "so-called liberal Zionists" acknowledge it. They experienced an epiphany. They "discover(ed) the immoral foundations of the state."
They could have done more but didn't. They still don't. Few Israeli profiles in courage exist. Pappe is a rare except. Most others deny truth and guilt. Born-again Zionism became "more extreme and obnoxious."
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