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“We have to ask ourselves what is in Israel’s interests. The interest of the Israelis and, in my view, of the government, is indeed to achieve peace with the Palestinians through direct negotiations, without preconditions, at any time, in order to get to a solution of two states for two peoples.”

(Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy Michael Oren, on Israel’s response to Donald Trump’s election in the New York Times, 15/11/16).