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This Israeli-Palestinian love story broke so many rules

November 28, 2013Lifestyle & Belief

It’s a rare love story that breaks so many boundaries in the Middle East. An Israeli and a Palestinian fought physical barriers in traveling between Jerusalem and the West Bank. They fought the Israeli-Arab cultural barriers. And they fought the social barriers of being gay.

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