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TO AVERT DISASTER, STOP ISOLATING HAMAS

In this op-ed for the Financial Times, Lord Patten of Barnes asks if it is not time for the U.S., Europe, the Arab League and other concerned parties to rescue Israel and Palestine from a drift to further disaster. Interested players must end the fragmentation of Palestine, promote a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, and set out in a Security Council resolution what they believe an agreement in Palestine and Israel should comprise, he urges. If others will not sign up to this the European Union should go it alone.