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Article: Israel the invisible?(Opinion)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 12, 2000
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When a group of prominent Jordanian journalists returned from a visit to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in September, their welcome-home greeting was an order expelling them from the Jordanian journalists association.
The three were not reinstated until they signed a formal apology for participating in the forbidden dialogue. The apology included these words: "We believe that the opposition to normalization is a crucial matter, which is done to prevent the 'weak hearted' from falling into an Israeli trap. We still view Israel to be a conquest state, and hold that it's impossible to conduct policies of normalization with her. We know that our profession enjoins us ...