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Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)
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Defiant pariah state leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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