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Maguire: UN should suspend Israeli membership
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Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire says the United Nations should suspend or revoke Israel's membership. Maguire says Israel should be punished for ignoring a series of United Nations resolutions over the years. Maguire won the 1976 peace prize for her work with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

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