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Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Thu Feb 4, 2016, 08:18 AM Feb 2016

This is of course what all moderate, peace-loving leaders do within hours of terror attacks.

The meeting, held just hours after a 19-year-old border policewoman was killed at Damascus Gate in the Old City, invited 11 families of "martyred sons" to the the PA president's headquarters.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Abbas-meets-with-families-of-terror-attackers-shortly-after-police-woman-killed-443778

Of course, this is a natural response says Ban Ki-Moon.