"I sat with a Hamas leader in Gaza not long before a helicopter took out the organization's co founder, al-Rantissi," she recalls with a faint smile..

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Haaretz, here

"... The hostility that some Israelis feel toward Europe, she says, "is not hostile enough when one considers how hateful some European institutions are of Israel." She says she expects the members of the new body to come to European forums and "attack ferociously those who call to demonize Israel." .........

Israel also needs to "attack" EU funding for NGOs that "promotes bias and prejudice," she avers. ........

Apologetic tactics, she told Haaretz at her home in Gilo, Jerusalem, won't work. "You Israelis must have courage to say you are at war and how much it costs you," she proposed, despite the militaristic image of Israel that this may reinforce. ......

The Arabs, she observes, have no problem admitting they are at war. "I sat with a Hamas leader in Gaza not long before a helicopter took out the organization's co founder, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi," she recalls with a faint ironic smile. "I have covered Camp David to Annapolis. I know them. I know that Israel has no partner."

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