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Hummus Diplomacy
Jun 30 2009, Marco Villa

Israel’s Channel 2 reports that Syrian President Bashir Assad sent a tub of Hummus to then Israeli Prime Minister [and crook] Ehud Olmert.

Assad was apparently meeting an American businessman in Syria whom is close to Olmert. Assad, ever the...

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