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Tue 06 Jun 2010Siege mentality leads to self-inflicted isolation
An enlightened swap of ideas between factions from the Middle East and North has lost its gleam to rigid mindsets
DAVID HAD just finished his three years of military service in the Israeli army when we first met about 10 years ago at a reconciliation centre on the Falls Road in west Belfast. A European Union youth programme had gathered 30 young Israeli, Palestinian and Irish people in their early 20s for a residential conference on peace.
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