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THE IVORY TOWER BEHIND THE APARTHEID WALL
By Margaret Aziza Pappano, The  Electronic Intifada, 25 July 2007

In the last few weeks, university  presidents across the US
and Canada have rushed to issue statements about  the
proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the
British  University and College Union. They view this
boycott as a serious violation  of academic freedom. Yet,
given the general failure of these leaders to  comment on
any number of infringements of academic freedom that  have
occurred in recent years, one might be excused for
concluding that  university presidents prefer to remain
above the political fray and reserve  their office for
grave and important but non-controversial  pronouncements
on tsunamis.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7124.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7124.shtml)   

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Palestine:  Diaries: Live from Palestine:

WHO ARE WE FORGETTING? 
By Timothy  Seidel, Live from Palestine, 25 July 2007

I thought about the irony as I  walked the grounds of the
old Orthodox Church, surveying the church and the  new wall
being constructed around it. We were visiting with members
of the  al-Mujaydal Heritage Committee who were working to
construct this wall in  what was the village of
al-Mujaydal. Al-Mujaydal was one of the over  500
Palestinian villages destroyed between 1947 and 1949, and
its  residents among the 750,000 to 900,000 refugees
expelled from their homes in  what Palestinians remember as
the Nakba or "Catastrophe."

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7123.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7123.shtml)   

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Lebanon:  Opinion/Editorial:

LEBANON'S BLOODY SUMMER
By Mohamad Bazzi,  Electronic Lebanon, 23 July 2007

This is the state of Lebanon today: deep  sectarian anger
that could boil over at any moment. In mixed  Beirut
neighborhoods, tensions rise between Sunnis and Shiites
after each  bombing. Tempers flare, small fights get out of
hand, people start calling  their friends and relatives to
come in from other areas to help them and  eventually the
police have to step in. (A Shiite friend who lives in  a
mainly Sunni neighborhood told me that for several days
after Eido's  killing, he found a broken egg each morning
on his car.) And there's no  shortage of bombings to stoke
tensions.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7113.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7113.shtml)   

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