Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) sent Red Cross officials in Geneva a letter calling on the organization to accept Israel’s Magen David Adom. Israel’s humanitarian relief movement uses a red star of David and has been barred from the Red Cross movement, which currently recognizes only the cross and crescent symbols.
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