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The former opposition presidential candidate is a “key, unifying figure” in the once deeply divided opposition to President Nicolás Maduro’s government, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

No such political vacuum exists or ever has, of course, and for the Nobel committee to ignore the war in Gaza for the third straight year — this time in favor of a controversial right-wing figure in a medium-sized South American nation — is a blatantly political decision.

For instance, the name of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, a key figure in implementing apartheid, has been removed from many places.

Barghouti remains a senior figure in the Fatah faction that dominates the PA, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank not under Israeli control.

Finbow was a prominent figure in the community during the 1980s and 1990s, known for his work in schools, hospitals, charities and running social clubs for children.