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Palestinians not welcome as Israel marks Memorial Day

· By Simon Speakman Cordall
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With the sounding of a siren at 8pm on Monday, Israel begins the commemoration of Memorial Day, remembering soldiers killed since the establishment of the first Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1860, through Israel’s many wars with its neighbours and attacks on Palestinians, up to those who died enacting its genoc…

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