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Palestinian Akram Bader, council chief of the West Bank village of Battir, estimates at least 320 acres of village land will end up on the Israeli side if Israel completes its separation barrier, which will stretch an estimated 500 miles. (Associated Press)

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Palestinians mark the 64th anniversary of "Nakba," Arabic for "catastrophe" — the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948 — in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, to announce Israel's new coalition government. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his father, Ben-Zion, attend the official memorial service for the late Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in July 2010. (AP Photo/Kobi Gideon, Pool)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices on Tuesday. He slammed Iran's nuclear efforts. (Associated Press)

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Israel has legalized the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Bruchin, shown in 2008. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Druze man rides a horse while holding a knife and a photograph of Syrian President Bashar Assad on April 17, 2012, during Syria's Independence Day in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria and Israel. (Associated Press)

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Demonstrators holding photographs of Palestinians jailed in Israel rally in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, to mark the annual "Prisoners' Day." (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

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"The nuclear power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace," writes Nobel Prize laureate for literature Guenter Grass, 84, in a poem published Wednesday. (Associated Press)