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Thursday brought a fresh setback for Israel’s fragile eight-party government coalition, with a parliamentarian from the left-wing Meretz party pulling out in protest at authorities’ treatment of Palestinians. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is left with a minority of 59 of the 120 seats in parliament. The opposition, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, could theoretically bring about a dissolution of parliament and a new election. Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi tendered her resignation from the coalition citing, among other things, the actions of the Israeli police during recent confrontatio…