The leader of Australia’s Jewish community publicly backed the East Timorese people in their ongoing struggle for independence from Indonesia. Diane Shteinman spoke of the Jewish community’s empathy for the suffering of the East Timorese, basing her expression of support on the Jewish historical experience.
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