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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Lifestyle
Erin Hale

McDonald’s franchises in Middle East at odds over Israel-Hamas war

McDonald's franchises in Muslim and Arab countries, including Kuwait, have pledged their support for Palestinians in Gaza [File: Reuters]

Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Thomas Friedman in the late 1990s famously claimed that two countries with McDonald’s outlets had never gone to war.

But as fighting rages between Israel and Hamas, the iconic American fast food chain is at war with itself.

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