NRC bericht: Egypte staat onder druk van Israël en het Westen om de smokkel tegen te gaan. De Palestijnse president Mahmoud Abbas, leider van Hamas’ rivaal Al-Fatah, sprak zich volgens Palestijnse media vandaag uit voor de bouw van een ondergrondse muur.
If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you can be sure we'd have heard all about it. But because that is what's been happening in western-backed Egypt, rather than Iran, and the people the protesters are supporting are the Palestinians of Gaza instead of, say, Tibetans, most people in Europe and north America know nothing about it.
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NRC bericht: Egypte staat onder druk van Israël en het Westen om de smokkel tegen te gaan. De Palestijnse president Mahmoud Abbas, leider van Hamas’ rivaal Al-Fatah, sprak zich volgens Palestijnse media vandaag uit voor de bouw van een ondergrondse muur.
Dat kan toch niet goed gaan...
If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you can be sure we'd have heard all about it. But because that is what's been happening in western-backed Egypt, rather than Iran, and the people the protesters are supporting are the Palestinians of Gaza instead of, say, Tibetans, most people in Europe and north America know nothing about it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/07/egypt-gaza-strip-viva-palestina
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