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Sep 2 2009, Marco Villa

It is a common story for Palestinians: Their youngsters throwing rocks at far-away and heavily-armed IDF troops whom are occupying the territories are met with live ammunition by those troops.

These rocks rarely ever near the boots of an Israeli...

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