From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Dahlia Scheindlin was published by +972 on December 17, 2015.
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat touched off a sizable media storm when he asked to remove an Israeli flag hanging above his head as he addressed the Haaretz conference in New York this week. Veteran journalist Dan Margalit from the pro-Netanyahu newspaper Israel Hayom called the conference organizer’s decision to comply a “burning and outrageous mistake.”
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