A Palestinian terrorist deported by Israel said he plans to return to the West Bank and enter politics. “I will try to do some politics, things like that,” Rami Kamel, one of 39 gunmen exiled after the 2002 standoff at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, told Reuters on Wednesday after learning that Israel plans to allow the exiles to return.
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