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Like the trumpets of Jericho
Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, refugees |
Leave a Comment By CLAUDE SALHANI (Editor, Middle East Times)
Who said history doesn’t repeat itself? Well, sort of. In the Biblical battle of Jericho it was trumpets that pulled down the walls. In modern day Gaza it was explosives and a bulldozer that pulled down part of the seven-mile barrier erected by Israel to keep Gazans confined and to prevent weapons and munitions from entering the Strip.
With his recently found interest in the Middle East U.S. President George W. Bush may have watched some of the news footage beamed into the White House from the Egyptian-Gaza border. The president would have watched, perhaps with a sense of horror, maybe with a hint of remorse, as about 60,000 Palestinians oozed over the border into Egypt on Wednesday in search of food and other basic goods.
What Bush would have seen is what happens when a territory of 1.5 million people — make that 1.5 million desperate people, who are treated to daily doses of humiliation, threatened with starvation and severed from the rest of the world, and forced to live in what basically amounts to the world’s largest prison — are finally pushed to the limits.
It was 34 years ago… this Oct. 6
Filed under: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, War, military intervention, politics |
Leave a Comment Claude Salhani
Middle East Times
– This Saturday marks the 34th anniversary of the October 6, 1973 conflict between Egypt and Syria on the one side and Israel on the other. Much has changed in the Middle East in the last 34 years. Egypt the most-influential Arab country at that time, and the one with the largest military has, since, made peace with Israel. So has Jordan.
