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Greenblatt: How Does Boycotting the Bahrain Meeting Help the Palestinian People
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - U.S. Mideast negotiator Jason Greenblatt explained Monday in New York why Israeli government officials were not invited to the upcoming "economic workshop" in Bahrain. "If the Palestinian Authority was willing to come, of course we would invite Israel. Having them both in the room can only be positive. The Palestinian Authority, to the tremendous detriment of its people, chose to boycott it. We don't want to politicize something that still has other positive reasons to go forward with." "It would have been great had the Palestinian leadership showed up to give feedback. But instead, they not only decided to boycott, but they chose to undermine it by telling everyone else not to attend, or to lower the level of attendance. How does that help the Palestinian people? That is terrible for the Palestinian people."