October 12, 2007

Abandoning a Misguided Boycott Is Only a First Step

By DAVID NEWMAN

I am sitting in a conference room, observing a group of 36 participants in a discussion. It is intense, and one can see the care with which the speakers choose their words. For this is no normal gathering. It involves two groups of teachersone Israeli and the other Palestinianwho, meeting each other for the first time, are not normally prepared to recognize even the basic legitimacy of each other's claims.

We are in the neutral city of Istanbul during the first days of the Lebanon war.

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