A Brazilian music star criticized Israel minutes after arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport. The Israeli- Palestinian struggle “is an unfair fight,” UNESCO musical ambassador Daniela Mercury said Monday, according to the Brazilian paper Folha de Sao Paulo. “I want to express all my concern for the Palestinian people, beside all my love for Israel.”
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