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		<title>Roane Carey: Dr. Benny &#038; Mr. Morris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible for someone who matter-of-factly supports crimes against humanity to be a good historian? A startling and provocative question, no doubt, but one that inevitably arises upon consideration of the remarkable career of Israeli scholar Benny Morris. A professor in the Middle East Studies department at Ben-Gurion University, Morris is well-known as one [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Roane Carey: Dr. Benny &#038; Mr. Morris", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/07/21/roane-carey-dr-benny-mr-morris/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>In Greece, Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must excuse myself, yet again, for the recent lack of content on this site - but I am in Athens with Ilektra. As we know, Greece has only recently ben introduced to the internet and they haven&#8217;t yet graduated to broadband, so I am stuck with a crappy dial-up connection for now. Believe me, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In Greece, Again.", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/07/18/in-greece-again/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Luisa Morgantini: Tony Blair Is Not Performing His Duty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a very negative signal that the International Quartet Envoy Tony Blair&#8217;s planned trip to the Gaza was cancelled yesterday, Tuesday 15th July, following what was described as &#8220;specific security threats that made the visit impossible&#8221;.
As a delegation of the European Parliament we visited, last June, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gaza Strip, West Bank and [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Luisa Morgantini: Tony Blair Is Not Performing His Duty", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/07/17/luisa-morgantini-tony-blair-is-not-performing-his-duty/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Mohammed Omer: IOF Was &#8220;Trying to Torture Me&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was coming back from my award ceremony and also a speaking engagement, I was stopped for nearly one hour and a half before an Israeli Shin Bet officer came to me and started collecting my bags, which were securely checked already. I kept waiting for some time until they got my luggage and [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mohammed Omer: IOF Was &#8220;Trying to Torture Me&#8221;", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/07/09/mohammed-omer-details-israeli-abuse/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>My Friend, Mohammed Omer, Assaulted by the Israeli Occupation Forces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to share some rather disturbing news regarding a friend of mine from Gaza. Mohammed Omer, an award winning journalist, was recently assaulted by the Israeli Occupation forces without justification as he attempted to return to Gaza via the Allenby Bridge crossing on the Jordanian-West Bank border. Mohammed, whom I came to know [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My Friend, Mohammed Omer, Assaulted by the Israeli Occupation Forces", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/07/02/my-friend-mohammed-omer-assaulted-by-the-israeli-occupation-forces/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Gudrais: Unequal America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United States. Between 1983 and 1999, men’s life expectancy [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Elizabeth Gudrais: Unequal America", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/29/elizabeth-gudrais-unequal-america/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Narratives Under Siege: &#8220;We Could not Even Bury our Daughter&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight year old Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter. These two young girls had been living just a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Narratives Under Siege: &#8220;We Could not Even Bury our Daughter&#8221;", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/16/narratives-under-siege-we-could-not-even-bury-our-daughter/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/16/narratives-under-siege-we-could-not-even-bury-our-daughter/</link>
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		<title>Donald Macintyre: Palestinians Barred from Dead Sea Beaches to &#8216;Appease&#8217; Jewish Settlers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Palestinians are being regularly and illegally barred from reaching Dead Sea beaches in the occupied West Bank, according to a Supreme Court petition filed by Israel&#8217;s leading civil rights organisation.
The Association of Civil Rights (Acri) in Israel is challenging what it says is the frequently imposed ban by the military on Palestinians seeking to swim [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Donald Macintyre: Palestinians Barred from Dead Sea Beaches to &#8216;Appease&#8217; Jewish Settlers", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/14/donald-macintyre-palestinians-barred-from-dead-sea-beaches-to-appease-jewish-settlers/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/14/donald-macintyre-palestinians-barred-from-dead-sea-beaches-to-appease-jewish-settlers/</link>
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		<title>Eyad Sarraj</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Gaza Strip, there are a vast number of inspiring individuals prepared to put their personal reputation (and even their own physical well-being) on the line for matters of conviction. Dr. Eyad Sarraj is one of the more prominent of these figures and I was fortunate enough to speak with him on several occasions [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Eyad Sarraj", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/13/eyad-sarraj/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>James G. Abourezk: Deadly Fallout From Obama&#8217;s Groveling Before Israel Lobby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a Moslem undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby.
This year we were fortunate enough to witness John McCain, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "James G. Abourezk: Deadly Fallout From Obama&#8217;s Groveling Before Israel Lobby", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/11/james-g-abourezk-deadly-fallout-from-obamas-groveling-before-israel-lobby/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Control Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Control Room, directed by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, provides unique insights into the media dynamics on the eve of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.  It primarily portrays the interactions between Al Jazeera journalists on the one hand and US military spokespersons and Western journalists on the other hand.  Al Jazeera is a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Film Review: Control Room", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/07/film-review-control-room/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama, the Zionist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two evenings ago, speaking before the American-Israeli Pubic Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Barack Obama desperately attempted to win back his floundering support among the American Jewish community by demonstrating his hawkish, pro-Israel stance. This is neither unusual nor suspect—especially in the United States where the Jewish demographic tends to be more fundamentally Zionist than the Israelis [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Barack Obama, the Zionist", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/06/barack-obama-the-zionist/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Remi Kanazi: Why a Cultural Boycott of Israel is Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Αt what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of continual dispossession, forty years of occupation, and a systematic repudiation of international and humanitarian law. The situation for Palestinians will not improve without [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remi Kanazi: Why a Cultural Boycott of Israel is Needed", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/05/remi-kanazi-why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-needed/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/05/remi-kanazi-why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-needed/</link>
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		<title>The Forgotten Abuse of John Walker Lindh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A letter recently appeared in the Washington Post that got me thinking about John Walker Lindh again. You remember him&#8230; The so-called &#8220;American Taliban&#8221; sentenced to 20 years in prison for &#8220;aiding the Taliban&#8221;. In reality, Lindh was more likely likely an unwitting victim of an emotionally fragile post-9/11 United States as well as a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Forgotten Abuse of John Walker Lindh", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/04/the-forgotten-abuse-of-john-walker-lindh/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/04/the-forgotten-abuse-of-john-walker-lindh/</link>
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		<title>War Crimes, Inc.: Blackwater and the Occupation of Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now the private security firm, Blackwater USA, has become a household name. The firm has been the subject of multiple investigations, lawsuits, and congressional inquiries—all leading to an obvious conclusion: Blackwater in Iraq has either acted in a manner of extreme disregard for civilian lives, or they are outright contemptuous murderers. Yet, as Democracy [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "War Crimes, Inc.: Blackwater and the Occupation of Iraq", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/03/war-crimes-inc-blackwater-and-the-occupation-of-iraq/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/03/war-crimes-inc-blackwater-and-the-occupation-of-iraq/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Reverses Fulbright Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems the U.S. State Department has reversed the decision to deny the seven Gaza students Fulbright Grants. And while this is good news in principle, it should not be praised out of context—or too early.
The spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry&#8217;s department of civilian affairs, Major Peter Lerner (whom I dealt with regularly when [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "U.S. Reverses Fulbright Decision", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/02/us-reverses-fulbright-decision-but-will-israel-let-them-leave/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/02/us-reverses-fulbright-decision-but-will-israel-let-them-leave/</link>
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		<title>CARE Togo: The Prevention and Rehabilitation of Exploited Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It could be called one of Africa’s tragic historic ironies. Centuries after the last slave had been put into bondage and sold to Latin and North America as well as the Caribbean on Africa’s infamous slave coast, which are nowadays the shores of Togo and Ghana; what has been called the twenty century equivalents of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CARE Togo: The Prevention and Rehabilitation of Exploited Children", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/01/care-togo-the-prevention-and-rehabilitation-of-exploited-children/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/06/01/care-togo-the-prevention-and-rehabilitation-of-exploited-children/</link>
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		<title>Narratives Under Siege: Eighteen Years of Work Destroyed in Four Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. I own this chicken farm with my three brothers, and we worked day and night for eighteen years to build up our business. The Israelis destroyed everything in less than four hours.”
Nasser Jaber’s chicken farm was bulldozed by the Israeli [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Narratives Under Siege: Eighteen Years of Work Destroyed in Four Hours", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/31/narratives-under-siege-eighteen-years-of-work-destroyed-in-four-hours/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/31/narratives-under-siege-eighteen-years-of-work-destroyed-in-four-hours/</link>
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		<title>Fulbright Grants Denied to Gazan Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What better way to punish Hamas than by punishing Gazan students?
The American State Department recently withdrew the Fulbright Grants for Gazan students hoping to pursue higher education opportunities in the United States. And on what grounds?
Well, it seems that because Israel isn&#8217;t letting them out anyway, it&#8217;s better not to waste money on students condemned [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fulbright Grants Denied to Gazan Students", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/30/fulbright-grants-denied-to-gazan-students/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/30/fulbright-grants-denied-to-gazan-students/</link>
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		<title>Amy Goodman: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by a U.S. Army tank on April 8, 2003. The tank attack killed [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Amy Goodman: Whistle-Blower Points to Target List in U.S. Attack on Hotel", url: "http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/25/amy-goodman-whistle-blower-points-to-target-list-in-us-attack-on-hotel/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://harmonicminor.com/2008/05/25/amy-goodman-whistle-blower-points-to-target-list-in-us-attack-on-hotel/</link>
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