Germany’s foreign minister reversed himself and admitted that he had attended a 1969 PLO conference in Algeria where delegates backed Yasser Arafat’s vow to destroy Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. Joschka Fischer is already under pressure to resign over questionable testimony he gave in the trial of a former fellow revolutionary.
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