President Bush signed the ratification of a protocol that allows Israel’s Magen David Adom to join international Red Cross societies. The protocol protects the copyright of the “Red Crystal,” a symbol created last year to afford protections to first responder groups that reject the Red Cross and Red Crescent because they are neither Christian nor Muslim.
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