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110526mg 11 05 26 26 May 2011 Mail & Guardian 30 standing oviations for Netanyahu at joint session of US Congress

In response to Barack Obama's speech on US - Middle-east policy, Benjamin Netanyahu gives his own and Israeli interpretation of the situation at a joint session of the US Congress. US educated Netanyahu knows how to play his audience and receives an extraordinarily warm welcome.

Zapiro's cartoon shows that Obama is at odds with his own lawmakers on the question of Palestinian rights.

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Netanyahu as a Roman gladiator at the Colesseum.