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Dick Lugar: to inflict collective punishment on the people of Gaza is both morally unconscionable and politically self-defeating.

On the recordMarch 3, 2010
to inflict collective punishment on the people of Gaza is both morally unconscionable and politically self-defeating.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar criticizes the collective punishment of Gaza's population.

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