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Sancho Pansa, ein freier Mann, folgte gleichmütig, vielleicht aus einem gewissen
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In paradoxical terms, that higher nature is a Don who completely sees through his own posturing and is therefore able to enjoy it to the hilt: Sancho Pansa, ein freier Mann, folgte gleichmütig ... dem Don
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If he was using Hebrew, he would say that he didn't want to be a "freier" which is Hebrew (really Yiddish) for sucker.
MJ Rosenberg: Israel's 11th Commandment and How It Makes Peace Near Impossible 2009
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Suddenly the Vice President looked like he was set up, like a sucker (or "freier," to use the Israeli term for the easily duped).
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com MJ Rosenberg 2010
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If, after the failure of socialism in Israel you still believe in people getting together to make a better life for ordinary people and their needs, goes the credo, you must be either effeminate, if you're a man; unduly mannish, if you're a woman; or, in any case, that most contemptible and therefore invisible and trample-worthy of Israelis -- the freier sucker.
Bradley Burston: In an Israel Reborn, a Glimpse of a New Israeli Bradley Burston 2011
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His voice was that of the Israeli who knows most intimately, that it is the freier who, in the end, is responsible both for Israel's survival and for its moral compass.
Bradley Burston: Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero? 2009
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And there is no small element of irony in the fact that the most truly heroic of Israelis fit precisely the mantle of "freier."
Bradley Burston: Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero? 2009
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There is no small element of tragedy in the circumstance that hardline Israelis are often so desperate to act so as to avoid "coming out a freier" that in the end, they cause themselves, their loved ones, and their country tremendous harm.
Bradley Burston: Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero? 2009
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Ha'aretz says that "thou shalt not be a freier" is Israel's 11th commandment.
MJ Rosenberg: Israel's 11th Commandment and How It Makes Peace Near Impossible 2009
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You can't be a freier when you deal with the Israelis.
MJ Rosenberg: Israel's 11th Commandment and How It Makes Peace Near Impossible 2009
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