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On the recordJuly 5, 2016
when Yasser Arafat walked away from that and went back to Ramallah and launched the intifada, it has led exactly to where we are today in 2016, 16 years later.
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Brendan Boyle
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Boyle links Arafat's actions at Camp David to the current situation in 2016.

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