[Marxism] Qassams - "WMDs"/ Egypt protests/ Arabic Al - Jazeera - Electronic Intifada

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ISRAEL'S FABRICATED ROCKET CRISIS 
By Jim Holstun and Joanna Tinker, The  Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009 

We have heard, and we will continue  to hear, a droning
litany of "Qassams! Qassams! Qassams!" The repetition  will
be difficult to resist, but for all of us who remember the
reiterated  US lies about Iraq of 2002-2003, whether with
pride for our skepticism or  shame for our credulity, a
good first step might be for us to think "WMDs!"  every
time they say "Qassams!" Like the US Coalition of the
Willing,  Israel's Operation Cast Lead has not let the
absence of actual provocation  get in the way of a good
bloodbath. Jim Holstun and Joanna Tinker analyze for  The
Electronic Intifada.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10123.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10123.shtml)  
 
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EGYPT GOVERNMENT FEELS ITS PEOPLE'S IRE 
By Per Bjoerklund, The  Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009 

Thousands of Egyptians have taken to  the streets to
protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza  and
the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation
of its  population. Last Wednesday, the state responded
with a major crackdown in  which tens of protestors and
journalists were assaulted and arrested. Per  Bjoerklund
reports from Cairo.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10121.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10121.shtml) 
 
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"BY CHOICE THEY MADE THEMSELVES IMMUNE" 
By Saree Makdisi, The  Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009 

Israel's disregard for Palestinian  life in Gaza today is,
in short, a direct extension of its disregard  for
Palestinian life since 1948, and what is happening in Gaza
today is  the continuation of what happened six decades
ago. Eighty percent of the  people crammed into Gaza's
hovels and shanties are refugees or the  descendants of
refugees that armed Zionist gangs, which  eventually
coalesced into the infant Israeli army, terrorized from
their  homes elsewhere in southwestern Palestine in 1948.
Saree Makdisi comments for  EI.

_http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10128.shtml_ 
(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10128.shtml) 
 
 
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