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January 6, 2017 Commentary

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Keeping Facility Open Threatens US National Security

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Stop Recruiting Child Soldiers in Iraq

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Israel/Palestine: Some Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’

Calls for Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinian Suspects Proliferate

Israeli emergency personnel and security forces work at the scene of what Israeli police said was a stabbing attack by two Palestinians on two Israelis in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon near Jerusalem on January 25, 2016.

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