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Arab States Must Stop Vilifying Israel
[Jerusalem Post] Haviv Rettig - "The time has come [for Arab states] to cease using international forums to vilify Israel and to [stop] indulging in point-scoring, which merely serves to postpone confidence-building in the region," said Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Majallie Whbee Tuesday at the Mediterranean Seminar in Tel Aviv held by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "We urge the pragmatic countries of the region to ask themselves what is the greatest threat to their future," he said. "Is it Israel, which has no designs on any of them, or is it the hatred and viciousness propounded by those who strive to drag them into a backward world order?" The seminar is an effort by the 56-nation OSCE to promote cooperation with countries of the Mediterranean basin. Only two junior Arab diplomats attended.