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Mokhtar continued to go into tribal areas, hours or days from Sana’a, and every time he packed his dagger, and a SIG Sauer pistol. His driver had a semiautomatic rifle. When he was in more troubled or unknown districts, he brought along another man who carried an AK-47 and a grenade. None of this was unusual. There were twenty-five million people i
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That al-Kassam would be the first Palestinian martyr whose Che Guevara–like tale would make him the icon of Islamic Palestinian resistance in the generations to come.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Electronic Intifada (the daily web news source propelled by Chicago-based Palestinian refugee Ali Abunimah)
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
EPILOGUE
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
I felt that I was still waking up, feel that I am still waking up, still searching for the right words, still trying to see a people whose oppression depended on their erasure. And I could not end this story there.