Twenty-three Protestants and a conservative Catholic leader signed a letter Thursday urging the Netherland government to support Israel in the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly debate on the Middle East. The signatories stated that Holland must vote in the UN against a possible resolution calling on Israel to evacuate all the administered territories without ensuring her secure and defensible borders. As for Jerusalem, the letter rejected its internationalization as wrong and as “no longer feasible.”
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