Young Mapam members demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy here Tuesday morning. Their protest was not directed against the U.S. but at the long line of Israelis waiting to apply for visas to go there. “Stay here and help us build a better future,” they cried. The line moved but the visa applicants were unmoved by the Mapam appeal. None of them left the queue.
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