100 UK, French ex-ambassadors accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing in open letter
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Former British and French diplomats are urging action over what they say is Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine. More than 100 of those diplomats have penned a letter to the French President and the British Prime Minister, calling for a ban on trade and arms sales to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state. The unprecedented joint letter directly accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and warns that the world no longer s…
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