Mideast Fire Exchanges Increase Despite Ceasefire Conditions
‘Only stupid countries don’t shoot back when you’re shot at, and we’re not a stupid country,’ Secretary Rubio says.
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BENNY AVNI
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Benny Avni is the Foreign Editor of the Sun.
Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.
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