"Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts in the heart of Hebron obstructed the work of Palestinian fire fighters on Wednesday night, as crews attempted to access a burning building owned by a Palestinian family."

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Quote: "Ms Najjar says the settlers, who are often masked, sometimes stone the house. Once a petrol bomb set fire to a shed. She compares the attacks to raids by the Ku Klux Klan in the segregation-era United States."

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Prof. Gordon Neve : "Putting massive international pressure on Israel is the only way to guarantee that the next generation of Israelis and Palestinians -- my two boys included -- does not grow up in an apartheid regime."

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Quote: "anti-racist Jews must struggle against the violent apartheid system which defines the state of Israel ... After all, our own history should make us uniquely sympathetic to those who suffer and who resist oppression".

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Bank Leumi , Israel's second largest, has denied it holds any such funds despite a parliamentary committee revealing in 2004 that the bank owes at least $75 million to the families of several thousand Holocaust victims.

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Quote: "Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard [in Israel] may have made an impression on Israel by standing by it in the massacre of more than 1300 Palestinians ... Israel did unspeakable damage in enacting this atrocity. "

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"We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land... celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East."

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These days, it's becoming downright chic to hint forebodingly that America's Jews are just too powerful. But whether it's the political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M.

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