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I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people
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Samantha Power
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 21
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London
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Samantha Jane Power
Samantha J. Power
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