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BENNY AVNI

Ban Commemorates Israel Founding as 'Catastrophe'

By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun | May 15, 2008

United Nations — Secretary General Ban is expressing sympathy with an Arabic assertion that the birth of the state of Israel is a “catastrophe” – even as the Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, says that Palestinian Arabs would not be able to get an independent state until they “erase” that notion from their historical narrative.

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Ban Commemorates Israel Founding as 'Catastrophe'

By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun | May 15, 2008

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