Israel filed a formal protest against a U.N.-affiliated commissioner who told Caterpillar to stop selling bulldozers to Israel. Jean Ziegler, a Swiss citizen advising the Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the Israeli army uses the bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes, crops and lives.
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