EU pulls back from confronting US over Gaza

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Judy Dempsey in Tullamore, Ireland | Financial Times | 18 April 2004 European Union foreign ministers have pulled back from an all-out confrontation with the US over President George W. Bush’s support for Israel’s unilateral “disengagement” plan from the Gaza Strip. The decision to soften their opposition was made hours before the assassination of

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Fallujanomics

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Khalid Kishtainy | openDemocracy.com | April 15, 2004 An American life is worth a thousand Iraqi lives. Iraqi satirist and author Khalid Kishtainy does the accounts for the recent fighting in Falluja. I don’t understand the reason for all this fuss and world condemnation of the Americans on the Falluja massacre. Only around 600

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The memory of the Egyptian revolution is the only weapon we have left

Omar Robert Hamilton The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2016 I didn’t take my camera out with me the night Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. I stood in Tahrir Square among tens of thousands of Egyptians and told myself I would enjoy the moment, I would not divide myself from the night’s magical reality with a lens. I had filmed up until then because it

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Democracy versus demography

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lev Greenberg | Haaretz Daily | 9 February 2005 Yitzhak Laor argued that the demand for a referendum is not democratic but meant to consolidate an ethnocentric regime (“Referendum means apartheid,” Haaretz, February 3). He also called on “doves” who support the disengagement to stop the formalist-legalist discussion and raise democratic arguments about the

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