A group of non-Jewish Swiss have started a petition campaign calling on the Swiss government to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization delegate to the United Nations in Geneva, Daud Barakat, from Switzerland and to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. So far, 2500 signatures have been collected.
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