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It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
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