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Israel/Palestine

leftynyc

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3. A great man

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 29, 2016, 07:05 AM

Sep 2016

Just look at all the world leaders who are attending his funeral. Probably the last of Israel's founding fathers. I saw a tweet from bibi yesterday that said it was the first day in the existence of Israel that Shimon Peres wasn't part of.

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