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Eliot Engel: “It is an absolute insult to ask any country to negotiate with a terrorist entity that denies their very right to exist.”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2011
It is an absolute insult to ask any country to negotiate with a terrorist entity that denies their very right to exist.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Eliot Engel argues against negotiating with groups that deny Israel's existence.

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