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Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Thomas Loren Friedman
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