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This Christmas, I will be celebrating in Bethlehem thinking about every Palestinian who would have loved to do the same but couldn't reach the city of Jesus because of Israel's occupation
On the face of it, by now Benjamin Netanyahu should be presiding over a relatively stable new government in Israel, considering the handsome majority secured by the parties who announced before the election in November that he was their only candidate for the prime minister’s job. Yet, last week he had to ask President Isaac Herzog for a 10-day extension to the 28-day period