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January 30th, 2016 
Awake Goy (JTA) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that progress on the Palestinian issue is key to forging an alliance between Israel and Arab states to address rising common threats.
Blair, who served as prime minister in 1997-2007 and as international envoy to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, said this on Tuesday during a speech in Brussels at an event organized by the European Jewish Congress to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
“If you go to the capitals of the Middle East region, you will find the same analyses of the threat, and the same desire to overcome them,” said Blair, who currently works for the of the office of the Quartet Representative – a platform set up by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations for the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. The reality he described, Blair said, forms the basis for his work to realize “the potential for alliance between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors.”
But, Blair added, “the key of course to that alliance, as we know, is progress on the Palestinian issue, and we know that this is difficult.” But out of crises such as the growth of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, Blair added, “come opportunities that during this long process of transition in the Middle East there is the genuine possibility of changing the way that people think and of reaching a situation where Israel is accepted and recognized.”
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(JTA) — The World Medical Association will not expel Israeli physicians over pro-Palestinian activists’ allegations that they practice torture, the president of the world body said.
Michael Marmot, the London-born physician who heads the association, announced the group’s decision in a letter he sent Monday to Shimon Samuels, the international relations director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Samuels had urged Marmot to reject the call by 71 British physicians earlier this month to expel Israel from the world body over alleged medical torture of Palestinians.
“The main authors of the letter have launched several attacks against the Israeli Medical Association with similar arguments in the past,” Marmot wrote, but “investigations have revealed no wrongdoing.” He added: “We have trust that our Israeli colleagues will stand firm on our values and the protection of human rights.”
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