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Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Monday, killing two 70-year-old women and a ...

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Action and nonviolent resistance, an example set by Bill Wassmuth, can counter even the most entrenched forms of hate, writes ...

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