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The truce has already been marked by several outbreaks of violence in the Palestinian territory, devastated by over two years of hostilities triggered by the bloody attack by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.

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"World Health Organization in touch with Beijing after mystery viral pneumonia outbreak," it says.

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And there had not been an outbreak of fleas in quite some time.

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For it was an outbreak of plague that finally did the Athenians in and forced them to surrender to the Spartans.

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No, America is what Lincoln declared it to be at Gettysburg, which is why the latest outbreak of antisemitism is a test, not only for conservatives, but for all Americans.

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