I have become increasingly disturbed that the Conference is turning into another vehicle for political abuse against Israel. The agenda item entitled "The Effects of Israeli Occupation on Palestinian Women Inside and Outside the Occupied Territories" is slated for discussion in two separate committees during three separate sessions of the Conference. Since this agenda item overlaps the session on women as refugees. domination of the Conference by this topic is virtually assured. Any discussion of Palestinian women should be properly placed within the session on women and refugees. Five years ago. in Mexico City. a similar subversion of an international conference on women took place. The adoption of a resolution equating Zionism with racism and condemning Israel by the U.N.
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