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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

''Second Israeli dies in self-immolation welfare protest''

if you cant take care of your VETS, don't start wars..............From Reuters


''An Israeli who set himself on fire in protest at economic difficulties has died of his injuries, the hospital treating him said on Wednesday, the second such death in a few days.

Akiva Mafi, a 45-year-old, wheelchair-bound army veteran, doused his body in petrol and lit it at a bus station on July 22, after what friends described as a debilitating battle for welfare benefits.''

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