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Israeli Occupation
Nov 7 2009, Marco Villa

Annual U.S. State Department human rights reports are politicized. The content is accurate and done by genuine scholars in the field. But the focus, or lack thereof, is often motivated by political factors. Politics, of course, set by the elected...

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