Peace Efforts
In 2012, as part of an effort to persuade the Palestinian and Israeli governments to start peace talks again take the Arab League’s 2002 Peace Initiative seriously, Masri has been meeting with Israeli businessman Rami Levy at Levy’s supermarkets in the West Bank, where the two have been planning a public-private partnership for peace. Masri explained that he is doing this now because "I want to see peace in Israel and Palestine before I die. And both sides really want peace and can benefit from it. We’ve seen enough suffering by mothers on both sides. It’s time to lead peaceful, safe lives."
As a result, Masri has been singled out by a Palestinian group known as the Boycott National Committee (BNC), due to a number of Levy's supermarkets being located in the West Bank, causing the chain to be branded by the BNC as supporting the "settlement enterprise." The BNC described the meeting as "among the worst kinds of normalization" and asserted that the Arab League's peace proposal had been rejected by Palestinians. The BNC has demanded that the PLO end the meetings between Masri and Levy.
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