Caterpillar shareholders rejected a proposal that would have asked the company to stop selling bulldozers to the Israeli army. The measure, which was prompted by Israel’s use of the bulldozers to raze the homes of suspected Palestinian terrorists, overwhelmingly was defeated at the shareholders’ meeting Wednesday in Chicago.
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