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  Recognising Palestine?   :      Information Clearing House: ICH

  Recognising Palestine?   :      Information Clearing House: ICH: "April 13, 2011 ----  What do you do if your decades-long campaign to bring about an independent Palestinian state on those fractions of historic Palestine known as the West Bank and Gaza Strip have resulted in total failure?
The answer seems to be, if you are the Western-sponsored Palestinian Authority (PA) in Israeli-occupied Ramallah, to pretend you have a Palestinian state anyway, and to get as many other countries to join in this charade as possible."

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