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February 23, 2006
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Italian Jewish leaders and politicians called for the resignation of a mayor who took part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration. After participating in Saturday’s demonstration in Rome, Mauro Bertini, the Communist mayor of the town of Marano, suggested that the world would be a better place without Israel. Israel, he said, was a “punch in the stomach of humanity.”

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