[Marxism] UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

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Palestine :  Opinion/Editorial:

REFUGEES ARE THE KEY
By Sam Bahour, The Electronic  Intifada, 20 May 2008

Today there are over 5.5 million Palestinian  refugees and
displaced persons who have never been allowed the choice
to  return to their homes or given redress for their
losses. The continued denial  of their rights encapsulates
the decades-long strife, disenfranchisement  and
dispossession the Palestinians have suffered. EI
contributor Sam  Bahour  comments.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9556.shtml

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Lebanon  : Opinion/Editorial:

IN THE WAKE OF THE DOHA TRUCE
By Karim Makdisi,  Electronic Lebanon, 19 May 2008

With the army deployed throughout key  areas, Lebanese
citizens once again resumed their everyday  activities
under the more familiar conditions of a devastated
environment,  massive traffic jams, unregulated
construction and urban planning,  electricity and water
shortages, state-sponsored theft or abuse of public  lands
and resources, rising poverty, inflation and unemployment,
and one  of the worst budget deficits per capita in the
world. The illusion of  normalcy has returned for the time
being but the real question is: for how  long? Karim
Makdisi comments from Beirut.  

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9553.shtml

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it  is 
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur  
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)



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