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Bill Clinton’s long-time mistress confirms Hillary is a lesbian: Zio-Watch, June 11, 2016

From The Daily Mail

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton’s lover – before and AFTER his marriage – tells how ‘lumpy’ Hillary with her ‘fat ankles and hair on her toes’ schemed to get her to LIE on 60 Minutes about Bill’s other affairs

  • ‘There appears to be no limit to what Hillary will do to destroy her perceived enemies,’ Dolly Kyle writes in her new bombshell book
  • Kyle began sleeping with Bill Clinton after high school and their affair didn’t end until he moved to the White House 
  • ‘Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent,’ she admits in memoir that rips the lid off the power couple
  • Bill was undone by Wilt Chamberlain’s claim to have slept with 20,000 women – That’s ten times more than I’ve had!’ he told Dolly
  • Dolly says Bill told her he and Hillary – who he called ‘The Warden’ -needed to have a baby ‘so we can appear to be a normal couple’
  • ‘We need to do something serious to take attention off the Warden’s lifestyle,’ Bill said and Dolly suggested he sleep with Hillary
  • When Dolly met Hillary – May 28, 1974 –  she wore a ‘misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body’
  • The garment ‘stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair’
  • ‘Thick brown sandals did nothing to conceal her wide feet and the hair on her toes,’ Dolly said, adding that she was embarrassed and staring

Dolly Kyle met Bill Clinton on a golf course in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the summer of 1959 when she was 11 years old and he was 12.

A thunderbolt struck, so powerful and intense, it was love at first sight that lasted 32 years – through all his Arkansas gubernatorial years and right up until ‘Billy’ – as she calls him – was on the threshold of the White House.

Dolly dated Bill all the way through Hot Springs High School together and they were close when he went off to law school at Yale.

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Dolly Kyle (pictured in 1998) met Bill Clinton on a golf course in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the summer of 1959

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From The Independent

EU referendum: Poll reveals a massive 10-point swing towards Brexit

Exclusive: polling carried out for ‘The Independent’ shows that 55 per cent of UK voters intend to vote for Britain to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum

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  • Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have helped propel the Leave campaign into a significant lead over their Remain rivals Getty

The campaign to take Britain out of the EU has opened up a remarkable 10-point lead over the Remain camp, according to an exclusive poll for The Independent.

The survey of 2,000 people by ORB found that 55 per cent believe the UK should leave the EU (up four points since our last poll in April), while 45 per cent want it to remain (down four points). These figures are weighted to take account of people’s likelihood to vote. It is by far the biggest lead the Leave camp has enjoyed since ORB began polling the EU issue for The Independent a year ago, when it was Remain who enjoyed a 10-point lead. Now the tables have turned.

Even when the findings are not weighted for turnout, Leave is on 53 per cent (up three points since April) and Remain on 47 per cent (down three). The online poll, taken on Wednesday and Thursday, suggests the Out camp has achieved momentum at the critical time ahead of the 23 June referendum.

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From Russia Today

Moscow warns of response after US sends destroyer to Black Sea

Published time: 10 Jun, 2016 11:58

© Maritime Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan © Maritime Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan / Reuters

American warships entering the Black Sea will prompt “response measures” from Moscow, a top Russian diplomat has warned, adding that another US aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean is clearly an attempt to show force ahead of an upcoming NATO summit.

The USS Porter (DDG-78), armed with assault cruise missiles and an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (primary weapon: Standard Missile 3), entered the Black Sea this week.

“American warships do enter the Black Sea now and then. Certainly, this does not meet with [Russia’s] approval and will undoubtedly lead to planning response measures,” Andrey Kelin, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s European Cooperation Department, told RIA Novosti on Friday.

He also disapproved of the deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw in July as muscle-flexing.

“There is nothing special about the movement of US vessels in this case. We know that aircraft carriers are moving in the Mediterranean Sea and elsewhere, they have a right to do so, this is freedom of navigation,” he said.

“But in general, this is a definite increase in [Russia-US] relations and all this is done ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw – this is a demonstration of force,” he added.
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From Russia Today

Turkey, Romania & Poland determined to expand US missile defense in Europe – Ankara

Published time: 10 Jun, 2016 09:05

© Osman Orsal © Osman Orsal / Reuters

The heads of the foreign ministries of Poland, Romania and Turkey agree that European missile defense needs expansion, according to the Turkish foreign minister. “Russia’s aggressive attitude” poses a serious threat to regional security and stability, he said.

The range of such systems should be significantly broadened to maintain secure protection of the population, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency cited Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying.

The Turkish FM pointed out that NATO’s missile defense (Patriot systems) is already deployed in all three countries “for defense purposes.”

“We’ve reached common ground that missile defense systems should be expanded to provide protection to all the three states and their populations,” Cavusoglu said.
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From The Times of Israel

Jewish economist wins Peru’s presidency, but rival won’t concede

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski carries 50.1% of vote, officials announce after 4 days of counting, but Keiko Fujimori hopes review may yet give her victory

June 10, 2016, 5:49 pm

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski acknowledges the crowd at the end of a news conference in Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 9, 2016. Kuczynski won the majority of votes in the country's closest presidential contest in five decades, Peruvian electoral authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski acknowledges the crowd at the end of a news conference in Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 9, 2016. Kuczynski won the majority of votes in the country’s closest presidential contest in five decades, Peruvian electoral authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former World Bank economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won the majority of votes in Peru’s closest presidential contest in five decades, election officials announced Thursday, even as his rival Keiko Fujimori has yet to concede defeat.

Four days after voting, electoral officials said that all ballots had been processed and Kuczynski had won 50.1 percent compared to 49.9 percent for the daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori.

Supporters immediately celebrated outside Kuczynski’s campaign headquarters while the apparent president-elect made a plea to his opponent and other rival political forces for dialogue.

“We receive this virtual verdict with great humility because Peru has huge challenges ahead of it,” Kuczynski, the son of a Jewish-Polish immigrant father, told reporters in his first remarks after the tally was known. “We shouldn’t confuse dialogue with weakness. We’re going to be decisive but we’re going to work on behalf of all Peru because many Peruvians feel the train has left them behind and we want everyone to get on board.”

Even as messages of congratulations poured in from presidents around Latin America, Fujimori’s campaign seemed in no rush to recognize defeat. After electoral authorities presented their results Thursday, she left her campaign headquarters, where she was holed up in meetings all day, and returned to her home without making any remarks to the throngs of journalists waiting outside.
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From The Times of Israel

Trump slams GOP hold-outs, targets ‘sad case’ Romney

Presumptive nominee says Republican leadership must be ‘very strong, very smart’; repeats attacks on Clinton, Warren

June 12, 2016, 3:18 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, June 11, 2016 at a private hanger at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, June 11, 2016 at a private hanger at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Campaigning in a pair of crucial battleground states, Donald Trump bashed Democrats and Republicans alike Saturday, from presumptive presidential rival Hillary Clinton to former Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who he branded a “sad case.”

First at a convention center in Tampa, Florida, and then in an airport hangar outside Pittsburgh, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee tore into fellow Republicans who have been slow to back him, again dashing hopes among some in the party that Trump would solely train his fire on his likely general election foe.

“I’d like to see Republican leadership be very strong, very smart and you got to be cool,” he said in Moon Township, Penn., saying that Republicans risked losing seats in the House and Senate.

“If not, I’m gonna win but a lot of other people are not,” Trump said. “We are going to win either way.”

Supporters gather for an opportunity to meet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a rally at Atlantic Aviation on June 11, 2016 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

Supporters gather for an opportunity to meet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a rally at Atlantic Aviation on June 11, 2016 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

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From The Independent

What Blair accidentally revealed about Iraq during his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn was very interesting indeed

Blair’s periodic eruptions are so useful because he openly reveals that, like the Bourbons, he has learned nothing and forgotten nothing since the start of the Iraq War

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  • Tony Blair is reported to be finalising a response to Chilcot with former Downing Street allies Getty

Normally anybody who criticises Jeremy Corbyn is guaranteed knee-jerk support by the British media which apparently feels that it does not even have to pretend to be non-partisan when it comes to the Labour leader. The only political figure similarly subjected to automatic demonisation is Tony Blair, so when he fiercely attacked Corbyn last week for supposedly focusing on “the politics of protest” at the expense of “the politics of power” it was interesting to see which man would be targeted.

Almost without exception, critics from Nigel Farage to Michael Moore denounced Blair as the root of all evil in the Middle East and beyond. Some claimed that he was so discredited that his views were no longer worth listening to, and others suspected that he was carrying out a pre-emptive strike before the publication of the report of the Chilcot inquiry, which is expected to criticise him severely for his actions in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Democrats tussle over adding occupation’ to party platform

Former Congressman Howard Berman, left, and Cornel West, at right, listening to testimony at a Democratic Party platform drafting committee hearing in Washington, D.C., June 9 2016. (Ron Kampeas)

Former Congressman Howard Berman, left, and Cornel West, at right, listening to testimony at a Democratic Party platform drafting committee hearing in Washington, D.C., June 9 2016. (Ron Kampeas)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee tussled over whether to use the word “occupation” in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue, reflecting divisions between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps that could play out at the convention.

The Democratic National Committee held two days of open hearings this week in Washington, D.C., on the platform, inviting experts to testify. The hearings, which will also take place in other cities, got underway the same week that it became clear that Clinton had secured her position as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

Much of the back and forth Thursday afternoon, when the committee considered foreign policy, was about whether the committee should describe Israel’s presence in the West Bank as an “occupation.”
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From Russia Today

Erdogan slams US support of Syrian Kurds, lectures Washington on ‘good & bad terrorists’

Published time: 12 Jun, 2016 02:20

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. © Murad Sezer Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. © Murad Sezer / Reuters

Turkey has criticized Washington over its active support of the Kurdish fighting force in Syria, branding the People’s Protection Units (YPG) as terrorists despite their latest successful advances on ISIS jihadists’ positions. TrendsSyria unrest, Syria-Turkey

The US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched an offensive at the end of May to capture the last segment of the Turkish-Syrian border still under Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) control and surrounded the city of Manbij on Friday. The US-supported coalition forces also continue to recapture settlements in the vicinity of IS stronghold of Raqqa on the north bank of the Euphrates River.
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From Russia Today

Sweden lashes out after lesbian romance ‘censored’ in Cartoon Network show

Published time: 11 Jun, 2016 20:20

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Sweden seems to have censored a brewing lesbian romance between two main characters in an episode of popular Cartoon Network show Steven Universe, leading its residents to launch a petition urging CN to take appropriate action.

Steven Universe, which premiered in 2013 in the US on Cartoon Network, revolves around the fictional Beach City where a boy called Steven hangs out – occasionally helping to save the world – with his friends, who are actually “Crystal Gems”: Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and others. The interesting thing about the gems is that they can fuse to create more powerful characters. Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, both female gems who are very much in love with one another.

The Swedish-dubbed version of the show’s episode ‘Hit the Diamond’ about a baseball match has been altered to mute the romantic tension between Ruby and Sapphire.

For instance, this particular conversation:

Ruby: Just look at the ball – Titter på bollen (Just look at the ball)
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From Russia Today

Israel closes border for all Palestinians after Tel Aviv shooting

Published time: 10 Jun, 2016 12:27

Israeli border police officers stand guard as Palestinians wait to cross through the Qalandia checkpoint to make their way to attend the first Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Ramallah June 10, 2016 © Mohamad Torokman Israeli border police officers stand guard as Palestinians wait to cross through the Qalandia checkpoint to make their way to attend the first Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Ramallah June 10, 2016 © Mohamad Torokman / Reuters

The Israeli Army has barred all Palestinians from entering Israel, except for “medical and humanitarian cases.” It comes after strict measures were already taken following a fatal Tel Aviv attack.

An army spokeswoman told AFP that the border closure will last until midnight Sunday.

The UN has stated that the Israel’s step may amount to collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law, and will “only increase the sense of injustice and frustration felt by Palestinians,” spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a news briefing, as quoted by Reuters.
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From The Times of Israel

Israeli poll shows little support for Trump in Arab world

IDC survey finds just 3.8% of Egyptians, 6% of Saudis favor presumed GOP nominee, who wants ban on Muslims entering US

June 10, 2016, 3:11 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on December 7, 2015 for a 'total and complete shutdown' of Muslims entering the US. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called on December 7, 2015 for a ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the US. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

AP — An opinion poll of attitudes inside Egypt and Saudi Arabia conducted by Israel’s Interdisciplinary Center found virtually no support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the two Arab countries.

The survey could signal trouble for Trump if he wins the November election and sets out to devise a Mideast policy. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are two of America’s most powerful and important allies in the Arab world.

When asked who their preferred candidate was, just 3.8 percent of Egyptian respondents chose Trump. In Saudi Arabia, only 6% favored Trump.

The presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, did better, though support was far from overwhelming. In Egypt, 35.7% of respondents chose Clinton, while in Saudi Arabia that number was 30.2%.

US Secretary of State Clinton talking with Saudi and Kuwaiti officials in Riyadh. (photo credit: AP/Brendan Smialowski)

Then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talking with Saudi and Kuwaiti officials in Riyadh in March 2012. (AP/Brendan Smialowski)

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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

France’s ex-chief rabbi seeks ‘radical’ response to Israel’s ‘abominable’ gay parade

Some 200,000 people participating in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, June 3, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Some 200,000 people participating in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, June 3, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

(JTA) — Several French Jewish organizations condemned a former chief rabbi of France, who called Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade an “abomination” and “attempt at moral extermination of the People of Israel.”

Joseph Sitruk, who had served as France’s chief rabbi from 1987 until 2008, made the statements last week, during a talk broadcast on Radio J, the Actualite Juive weekly reported.

“The Torah determines that homosexuality is an abomination and considers it a human failure. The danger seems to me grave enough for everyone to shout their opposition in the face of such an offense,” said Sitruk on June 3, as tens of thousands marched through Tel Aviv in its 23rd annual gay pride event. “I hope the listeners will react in a radical manner to this abomination,” Sitruk said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Fox Sports reporter fired after slurring Jews, Mexicans

(JTA) — A Fox Sports sideline reporter has been fired for making racist and anti-Semitic comments on a live Facebook broadcast Thursday.

In the broadcast Thursday on Barstool Sports’ Facebook Live, Emily Austen, 27, said Jewish people are stingy and expressed surprise that a Mexican immigrant was a high school valedictorian, because, “I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart.” She also made a stereotypical remark about Chinese-Americans.

Citing an unnamed source with the Tampa Bay Rays, which Austen covers, Business Insider reported Friday that Austen had been fired for the comments and will not appear on any future game broadcasts.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Workers allege Trump stiffed them on overtime during Passover getaway

Donald Trump speaking to voters in Bluffton, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donald Trump speaking to voters in Bluffton, South Carolina, Feb. 17, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — One of the many lawsuits alleging underpayment by Donald Trump is from workers who say they were denied overtime during a Passover event.

Trump Miami Resort Management LLC last month settled with 48 workers who said they did not receive overtime during a 10-day Passover event at the Trump National Doral Miami, USA Today reported Thursday.

Settlements ranged between $800 to $3,000 per worker, with some saying they put in 20-hour days.
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From Russia Today

Erdogan cuts short US trip before Muhammad Ali burial amid reports he was snubbed at funeral

Published time: 10 Jun, 2016 22:58

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) departs following the jenazah, an Islamic funeral prayer, for the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. © Lucas Jackson Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) departs following the jenazah, an Islamic funeral prayer, for the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. © Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promptly finished his visit to the US and will skip the final farewell to legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, amid reports that he had been refused permission to deliver a speech at the funeral and had been prevented from undertaking some religious rituals.

Erdogan attended a Muslim funeral for the boxer on Thursday and was expected to attend the final ceremony on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside other world leaders. But his office said that he left the US late on Thursday without giving any explanation, according to Reuters.
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From The Times of Israel

‘Ali! Ali!’: Legendary boxer makes his final journey

Bill Clinton, Billy Crystal attend funeral; White House staffer reads letter from Obama, who cannot attend due to daughter’s graduation

June 10, 2016, 9:43 pm

People watch as the funeral procession for Muhammad Ali passes in front of his boyhood home Friday, June 10, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

People watch as the funeral procession for Muhammad Ali passes in front of his boyhood home Friday, June 10, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Muhammad Ali made his final journey through his hometown Friday — past the little pink house where he grew up and the museum that bears his name — as thousands of mourners along the route pumped their fists and chanted, “Ali! Ali!” for the former heavyweight champion of the world known simply as The Greatest.

A hearse bearing Ali’s cherry-red casket, draped in an Islamic tapestry, arrived at Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery in a long line of black limousines after a 19-mile drive via Muhammad Ali Boulevard that was both somber and exuberant.

“He stood up for himself and for us, even when it wasn’t popular,” said Ashia Powell, waiting at a railing for the hearse to pass by on an interstate highway below.

Ali was to be laid to rest around midday — his headstone inscribed simply “Ali” — in a private graveside ceremony, followed in the afternoon by a grand memorial service attended by more than 15,000 people, including former President Bill Clinton and comedian Billy Crystal.

Ali, the most magnetic and controversial athlete of the 20th century, died last Friday at 74 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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From PressTV

Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:4AM
File photo of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
File photo of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Greek legislators from the ruling Syriza political party have told members of Palestinian political parties that Athens intends to officially recognize the State of Palestine.

During a Saturday meeting between a Greek parliamentary delegation from the Syriza Party and political parties of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the Greek lawmakers confirmed that the government in Athens would “soon” recognize the State of Palestine, according to a PLC statement cited in a report by Ma’an News Agency.

However, a precise timetable for the official recognition was not specified by the visiting Greek lawmakers.

The parliament in Greece voted last December in favor of a motion to recommend that the government recognize the Palestinian State.

The voting took place during a special parliamentary session attended by Acting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Despite the vote, the actual recognition has not yet materialized.

“Due to some special circumstances, the Greek recognition of the Palestinian state has been delayed, but it will come soon,” the PLC statement quoted the visiting delegates as saying.

If implemented, Greece would become the second European nation to officially recognize the State of Palestine, following Sweden’s 2014 official recognition of the state.

During their visit, the Greek lawmakers met with Fatah movement’s Azzam al-Ahmad, Qays Abdul Karim of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative, Bassam al-Salihi of the Palestinian People’s Party, and the Fatah-affiliated MPs Najat al-Astal, Muhib Awwad, and Abdullah Abdullah.
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