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Seventeen points on Israel and Palestine
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Seventeen points on Israel and Palestine

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May 19, 2021
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The bad guys won (Saul Loeb / AFP)
  1. Israel and Palestine are small nations and not strategically significant these days, so it’s notable that conflicts there attract not just more, but orders of magnitude more coverage than conflicts in, say, Chad, that objectively impact more people. And if human rights observers ding the government of Chad for something…

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