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The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

— Avigdor Lieberman

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The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit.

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