Israel welcomed an agreement reached at the conclusion of a U.N. conference on racism in Durban, South Africa. Along with an acknowledgment of the “massive suffering” caused by slavery, the final agreement noted the “plight of the Palestinians under foreign occupation,” but did not contain a harsher attack on Israel as Arab delegates had sought.
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