Arab Americans protested a peace award to Shimon Peres. Demonstrators outside Monday’s Seeds of Peace function in Michigan where Peres was being honored along with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh held signs accusing Peres of being a killer for retaliatory strikes Israel launched into Lebanon when Peres was prime minister in 1996.
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